The “Cancel Culture” has spread like wildfire through the media industry and now its infiltrating college campuses.
Namely, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Over the summer, the school was forced to retract its offer to Sonya Duhé who was hired to replace the school’s longtime dean, Christopher Callahan.
Her tenure was cut short almost instantly after she published a tweet praying for “the good police officers who keep us safe.”
Former students at Loyola University in New Orleans, where Duhé was the director of the School of Communication and Design told a student-run newspaper at Arizona State University that she exhibited racist and discriminatory behavior.
In a letter to ASU President Michael Crow, the former students promised irreparable harm to the school’s reputation and finances if Duhé became dean.
An online petition to retract the school’s offer to Duhé amassed 4,000 signatures.
The story was first reported by the Arizona Republic.
In May, Cronkite News, the news division of Arizona PBS, published a poll about looting in Scottsdale. The poll was quickly attacked by students who considered it too friendly towards police. Cronkite News deleted the poll and apologized for publishing it.
The station manager for Arizona State’s student run “Blaze Radio” said she would not conform to the cancel culture after she shared a Tweet from the New York Post about Jacob Blake, a black man paralyzed after he was shot in the back by police.
“Always more to the story, folks,” she Tweeted. “Please read this article to get the background of Jacob Blake’s warrant. You’ll be quite disgusted.”
Klein has since deleted the Tweet and apologized for her comments. She said she thinks the backlash she has received is a product of “cancel culture” and “mob mentality.”
