What started as a left-leaning movement in the United States that targets public figures through shaming tactics, has caught fire via social media through hashtags like #MeToo, giving rise to a pervasive sub-society known as  “cancel culture.”
However, it has moved well beyond U.S. borders and is becoming what some French consider a blight upon the face of their society and its Canadian counterpart.
“The refusal to call into question one’s beliefs or certainties, to be confronted by or even hear of opposing points of view shows a worrying retreat of the democratic mind,” Education Minister of Quebec, Jean-Francois Roberge, and France’s Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, wrote in an open letter.
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