Pushback at cancel culture is leading to new educational initiatives
Some Americans want to reform from within. Some want to build anew
A BLOG POST by a self-professed liberal, atheist 19-year-old student put culture warriors in a spin in January. She described her transfer from an elite, liberal-arts college to a Christian college in Michigan. Conservatives said it showed young people were sick of leftist indoctrination. Liberals pointed to the fact that the student’s mother was an anti-vaxxer, who boasted online that this was the reason for the transfer.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “A pushback against cancel culture”
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