While the teachers may have been tone deaf in their costume choices, America's cancel culture took things too far

When I was a little girl, Pass the Parcel was a big hit at birthday parties.

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The game started with a bulky prize wrapped in multiple layers of paper. Kids sat in a circle and passed the parcel around until the music stopped, and the person holding the package got to remove one layer of paper. The winner was the kid who got to remove the last piece of wrapping and take home the prize they had excitedly revealed.

That game reminds me of social media, but with things reversed.

With Pass the Parcel, the more times the prize got passed around, the closer you got to revealing what was inside. With social media, it’s the opposite: the more some tidbit of information gets reframed and disseminated, the further removed from the truth it can become.

But social media is no game. Falsehoods and misinterpretations can damage reputations, lead to professional repercussions and even threats of physical harm.

That’s just what happened to math teachers at a high school in Vail, Arizona on Oct. 31.

The teachers — for the second........

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