‘This Is F****** America’: What We Can Learn From Dana White’s Stand Against Cancel Culture

In doing research for my forthcoming book The Silencing of the Lambs: The Ominous Rise of Cancel Culture and How We Overcome It, I compiled a list of secular voices speaking out against cancel culture. In other words, this was not just a matter of Christian conservatives speaking up. This was a matter of people with very different worldviews and convictions speaking up as well. Dana White, president of the multi-billion-dollar UFC, a mixed-martial arts combat league, is the latest to add his voice.

Among those quoted in The Silencing of the Lambs were Bill Maher, an outspoken, liberal atheist; Barri Weiss, former New York Times journalist and herself a lesbian feminist; Sarah Silverman, an irreverent, Jewish comedian; Nick Cave, an Australian singer and songwriter; Alec Baldwin, the famously anti-Trump actor; J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series; and others. This is quite a formidable (and rapidly growing) list.