If there is any sincere person left in America who still claims that cancel culture is a myth, they may want to seriously consider the case of Cara Dumaplin. The popular baby sleep training expert has been ruthlessly attacked, boycotted, doxxed, and smeared recently after someone (more on that “someone” in a moment) went through FEC records and discovered that she’d donated to Donald Trump. Many media outlets have reported on the story, eager to amplify the news of a non-political person’s private campaign contributions. Most of the coverage has been along the lines of this post from The Cut, a New York Magazine publication: “A boycott is brewing against formerly beloved child-care consultant Cara Dumaplin, who has reportedly been funneling some of the profits from her pricey classes into the Trump campaign’s coffers.”
This is disgraceful, of course, and also not true. Not only are they straining to make the donations sound sinister by using a phrase like “funneling the profits,” but they assume that the money came from her child care consultant business. We have no way of knowing that. And it doesn’t matter anyway. Cara Dumaplin offers advice on how to care for infants — very good advice, I’m told — and has never chosen to publicize her personal views. The small amount of money she donated to a political campaign (about $1,000 over the course of three years) is of no one’s concern but her own. This is not a case of a public person choosing to air their political views and then experiencing the divided response that any sane person must expect in this environment. This is, rather, a woman in a completely apolitical line of work whose financial records, along with her address, have been dug up and published in order to personally destroy her in an act of collective ideological vengeance.
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