THE NEW VICTORIANS: Cancel Culture is happening on a historic scale:

Victorians and modern social justice advocates share a deep conviction that their fight is of profound moral and social importance and, therefore, that dissent is too great a risk to the future to tolerate. They both betray a certainty of their own righteousness and a willingness to use legal and social forces to get people to bend the knee. Like the Victorian era, the age of Cancel Culture is highly moralistic and relies on cancelers simply declaring dissenters as immoral or otherwise “bad people” rather than refuting the dissenters’ arguments. As Rikki Schlott and I argue in “The Canceling of the American Mind,” cancelers rely heavily on the psychology of taboo to win arguments without winning arguments.