Mallard Fillmore, meet Doonesbury.
It didn’t take long for the decision by Gannett Co. to drop the conservative comic strip Mallard Fillmore from its newspapers to be decried by conservative websites as just one more example of “cancel culture.”
“Conservative Mallard Fillmore cartoon canceled by leftists,” said the Independent Sentinel. The Red Alert declared, “Cancel culture has claimed another conservative scalp.
And then there was the tweet by Bruce Tinsley, the cartoonist behind Mallard Fillmore: Guess who Cancel Culture got this time?
Not so fast. This notion that there’s suddenly a liberal wave of intolerance out there badly misreads history. This nation has seen decades of backlash against controversial content and provocative views, fueled by both the left and the right. In fact, comic strips have long been prime targets.
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