Cancel culture cuts both ways

It's not just right-wingers getting "deplatformed" by schools.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a controversial speaker is invited to give a talk at a prestigious educational institution. The speaker is well-known for unorthodox, even offensive, views about racially charged subjects. Fearing a backlash from student audiences too fragile to hear something they don’t agree with, the school backs down and cancels the talk, claiming that the speaker’s presence will be too disruptive.

Dog bites man, right? Well, we’ve seen this kind of story far too many times in recent years, but this particular one has a twist:

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times journalist who conceived The 1619 Project, said Tuesday that she was recently disinvited from speaking at Middlesex School, a private boarding school in Concord, during Black History Month.

In a phone interview Tuesday, Hannah-Jones said someone from Middlesex had reached out through a friend in April asking if she would be willing to speak at the school in February 2022. Hann…