Ask Lemmygrad

“THERE were two “Reigns of Cancel Culture,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Cancel Culture, the momentary Cancel Culture, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Cancel Culture which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all the world could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Cancel Culture—that unspeakably bitter and awful Cancel Culture which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”