THE finance minister’s recent dismissal of the figures of the new poor that a number of think tanks have recently come up with showing that about a fifth of the population has gone below the poverty threshold amidst the Covid outbreak is an example of the cancel culture that appears to have been ingrained in our political culture where cancelling uncomfortable facts, criticisms and arguments has come to be customary.
THE finance minister’s recent dismissal of the figures of the new poor that a number of think tanks have recently come up with showing that about a fifth of the population has gone below the poverty threshold amidst the Covid outbreak is an example of the cancel culture that appears to have been ingrained in our political culture where cancelling uncomfortable facts, criticisms and arguments has come to be customary.
