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

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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.

Parker Molloy
Aug 15, 2022
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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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