More than 150 eminent people worldwide have signed an open letter published in Harper’s Magazine saying that social media pressure driving the cancel culture is imperiling free speech. Among the signatories are Margaret Atwood, J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky, Gloria Steinem, Wynton Marsalis, Garry Kasparov and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. Also signing is Canadian psychiatrist Steven Pinker who says he has since received mail congratulating him on remaining sane. But the signatories have also been attacked. The Daily Beast has called them “white bigots.”
