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The Modern-Day Pharisees

Ave Maria In The Afternoon

Two recent stories encapsulate the ongoing prevalence of “cancel culture” on the internet. Last week, the Portland Trailblazers introduced Braiden Bell as their newest play-by-play announcer – and then fired him a few hours later for offensive social media posts he made as a teenager – in 2012. And a viral video of a couple at a baseball game – the wife holding a sleeping baby while her husband ate a hot dog – led people on the internet to rush to judgment about the couple’s marriage. Cancel Culture allows us to be modern-day Pharisees. It collapses the distinction between “you did something wrong” and “you are permanently the wrong kind of person.” Marcus has more.