The Marketing Trend That Gave Us Cancel Culture

How personalized marketing turbocharged identity politics

Dustin Arand
Politically Speaking
4 min readJul 15, 2022

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These days, whining about cancel culture has become a bit of a national pastime. I’ve written several articles about cancel culture, and why I think the moral panic over it is completely unnecessary. But in this piece I want to put forward a novel hypothesis:

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Dustin Arand
Politically Speaking

Lawyer turned stay-at-home dad. I write about philosophy, culture, and law. Author of the book “Truth Evolves”. Top writer in History, Culture, and Politics.