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Those people we tried to cancel? They're all hanging out together

John McDermott
New York Times·
13 mins to read
Those people we tried to cancel? They're all hanging out together
The term for people who have been thrust out of social or professional circles, either online or in the real world or sometimes both is 'cancelled'. Photo / Antony Freda, The New York Times

Katie Herzog was a largely unknown freelance journalist living in Seattle. Then she published an article in The Stranger about trans people who halt or reverse transitions. Two days later she started getting hate mail.

"It is, by far, the most-read thing I've ever written," Herzog said. It also made

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