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Stop trying to shoehorn the Salman Rushdie assassination attempt into your weird "cancel culture" BS

Stop trying to shoehorn the Salman Rushdie assassination attempt into your weird "cancel culture" BS

No, someone trying to stab Rushdie is not in the same category as students protesting a campus event or whatever other non-story you're outraged about this week.

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On Friday, author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times ahead of a speech at western New York’s Chautauqua Institution. Rushdie’s attacker was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree attempted murder and assault with a weapon. The author, himself, was rushed by helicopter to a hospital in Erie, Pa., where he was put on a ventilator foll…

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