Unbelievably this appeared in a video Op ed in The New York Times. Is this the beginning of Thermidor for social media lynch mobs? We shall see.
Cancel Culture in the Middle Ages
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I couldn’t watch the entire kid vid. The warden was annoyed by the volume.
Is the NY Times wrong about everything.
In the Middle Ages cancel culture services were provided by The Inquisition – whose play book the Left apparently has copied word-for-word.
Thermidor! That made me laugh!
Not a bad homage, but would have been better with a few more moose bites, and a few less llamas.
But for the record, you need to look to early modern Europe for that kind of fear and superstition.
The Papal Inquisition was too well governed by rules of evidence and rational procedures to be mistaken for a Schiff-run committee hearing.
“The Papal Inquisition was too well governed by rules of evidence and rational procedures to be mistaken for a Schiff-run committee hearing.”
Thank you
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For anyone interested in a perspective on Medieval Europe that doesn’t presume a thousand years of fear, superstition and darkness, find yourself a copy of C.S. Lewis’s The Discarded Image
The difference with the actual Middle Ages Ernst enhances the video for me, and adds a layer of irony.
Is that Boss Tweed?