KLAVAN: The Attack of the Social Justice Insects

For me, the mystery of cancel culture is this: how did a few scurrilous, unscrupulous, small-minded, accomplishment-free leftist social thugs gain so much power over better people than themselves — namely just about all the rest of us?

Cancel culture is the phenomenon where nobodies who have never done anything gather together to destroy the lives and dreams of talented, hard-working people who have earned one of society’s glittering prizes. A young man wins the Heisman Trophy. A performer achieves his dream of hosting the Oscars or getting hired on Saturday Night Live. A judge of admirable learning and impeccable reputation gets nominated to the Supreme Court. And suddenly, like human woodlice swarming out from under their rocks, the outrage insects scramble to expose and publicize some past error or misstatement, real or imagined.