откуда есть пошла "cancel culture"
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borislvin186 лет назад:
Mobs, it is true, were characteristic of the time; the popular belief seemed to be that the best way to get rid of unorthodox ideas was to break the heads containing them. In keeping with this belief, mobs set upon the people. The passage of an lecturer could almost have been followed by the shouts of angry crowds and the sounds of stones crashing through the windows of the meeting-places where he spoke. Mobs broke up meetings in New York City, Haverhill, Concord, Boston, and Utica. In various places mobs burned literature, sometimes breaking into the post-offices to seize the material for their bon-fires. Elsewhere the authorities prevented the delivery of papers, and at this the Postmaster-General connived. Individual travellers who expressed opinions were forcefully made to feel unwelcome. At least one was whipped, and another was hanged. This physical violence was accompanied by turbulent meetings. These produced heated resolutions against the abolitionists and offered various plans for suppressing them. The temper of the House of Representatives which convened in December, matched that of the mobs.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2715250
Mobs, it is true, were characteristic of the time; the popular belief seemed to be that the best way to get rid of unorthodox ideas was to break the heads containing them. In keeping with this belief, mobs set upon the people. The passage of an lecturer could almost have been followed by the shouts of angry crowds and the sounds of stones crashing through the windows of the meeting-places where he spoke. Mobs broke up meetings in New York City, Haverhill, Concord, Boston, and Utica. In various places mobs burned literature, sometimes breaking into the post-offices to seize the material for their bon-fires. Elsewhere the authorities prevented the delivery of papers, and at this the Postmaster-General connived. Individual travellers who expressed opinions were forcefully made to feel unwelcome. At least one was whipped, and another was hanged. This physical violence was accompanied by turbulent meetings. These produced heated resolutions against the abolitionists and offered various plans for suppressing them. The temper of the House of Representatives which convened in December, matched that of the mobs.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2715250
