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Nick Cave condemns cancel culture for having ‘asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society’ – The Independent
Singer said political correctness has become the ‘unhappiest religion in the world’

Nick Cave has slammed cancel culture, calling it the antithesis of mercy.
Cancel culture is the practice of rejecting, ignoring or publicly opposing someones views or actions in order to deprive them of time and attention.
In a new edition of his newsletter The Red Hand Files, the singer-songwriter wrote: As far as I can see, cancel culture is mercys antithesis. Political correctness has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world.
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