Rachel M. LaBruyere is a lawyer at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings law firm in their Charlotte office. Rachel is an associate in the Litigation Practice Group.
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Over the past week I’ve been thinking a lot about a question a reader emailed me a few months ago.
To paraphrase, he asked: How would you feel if a bunch of U-T readers got together and demanded you were fired for something you wrote?
That question was in a response to a column I wrote encouraging people to retire the phrase “cancel culture.”
My thinking was, and remains, that when exercised appropriately cancelling someone is about accountability. It is a legitimate way to punch back at someone typically a public figure who is powerful and caused harm, while it also supports people who have been victimized.