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someone who wanted their opponent silenced, or someone who wanted someone spewing vile shit to stop.

easy to imagine the beginning of this.

in modern time though, generally speaking, conservative group try to cancel shit.
Like the mothers who made the explicit stamp on stuff happen, they initially wanted to cancel rock. Christians don't like gay characters.

And liberals don't like when Milo Yiannapo-what's-his-name-again-lis come on campus to discuss debunked ideas. Go talk about that on corporate playground where people believe you but don't bring your alt-right racist bullshit on campus.

you can see both modern side engage in culture war.
just depend on what you end up defending.

mr potato head.

or marginalized groups.