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Refusing to Forgive Institutional Racism Is Not Cancel Culture

LEGITIMATELY BAD

Purdue Northwest Chancellor’s mockery of Asians isn’t a harmless joke that should be waved away as a rude faux pas. It’s an indicator of bigoted rot at the top.

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Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon’s racist mockery of Asian language at the university’s commencement ceremony can’t be whitewashed by an apology and rhetoric about “cancel

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