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America’s Cultural Revolution: Episode One
America’s Cultural Revolution: Episode One
Holy Land
What the public shaming of Palestinian immigrant Majdi Wadi — and the boycott of his Minneapolis business — says about who we are becoming. 
By Bari Weiss
06.09.21 — Culture and Ideas
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America’s Cultural Revolution: Episode One

When you hear the term cancel culture you might think of college students in Native American headdresses. Or Rosanne Barr. Or Alison Roman. Or (fast forward a year) Chrissy Teigen.

It’s a term that has been stretched to include any negative action ever taken against any entity. Including, most recently, a winning Kentucky Derby horse. So in one sense it’…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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