JK Rowling joins 150 public figures decrying 'cancel culture'
Some 150 writers, academics and activists - including authors JK Rowling, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood - have signed an open letter denouncing so-called cancel culture.
They say they applaud a recent"needed reckoning" on racial justice, but argue it has fuelled stifling of open debate.Cancel culture refers to online shaming of individuals who cause offence. "The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted," says the letter.
US intellectual Noam Chomsky, eminent feminist Gloria Steinem, Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and author Malcolm Gladwell also put their names to the letter,The appearance of Harry Potter author Rowling's name among signatories comes after she recently found herself under attack online for
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