As Charlottesville, Virginia, removed statues of Confederate generals, onlookers cheered.

The UK is deporting boat people without even a hearing. This violates British law as well as international treaties.

Adopting ecocide as an international crime would mean that individuals could be punished for their roles in destroying natural systems.

*Rapidly Thawing Permafrost Threatens Trans-Alaska Pipeline.* This can cause an oil spill.

An argument that cancel culture is like disinformation, in that both are forms of manipulation that try to impose a "totalistic" culture that tolerates no dissent.

At present, the right wing uses disinformation while the left uses cancellation, but neither method is intrinsically tied to a political position. Rather, any side's ability to use these forms of manipulation can use depends on what strengths it has at hand.