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What To Do When Cancel Culture Invades Your Home

‘No contact’ is Marxist cancel culture applied to homes and families.

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Abandonment is a dominant theme of our age, and most of it is government-enabled. Adults abandon their own children and spouses en masse through no-responsibility divorce, subsidized indolence, and abortion. Children abandon parents to old folks’ homes, some visiting rarely. And parents abandon children to daycare from birth, screentime with deranged strangers, and public schools that increasingly function like orphanages.

So it should be no surprise there’s now a trend of children abandoning non-abusive family members. The “no contact” movement is another logical outcome of the sexual revolution and “Me Generation’s” firm belief that people are objects to use rather than sacred souls born or vowed into lifetime obligations.

No Contact, a book out Sept. 8 by regular Federalist contributor Noelle Mering, explores this trend in the generous, apolitical style of Abigail Shrier’s 2024 bestseller, Bad Therapy. Mering notes the majority of family cutoffs today are driven by cultural Marxism. This means most kids who go “no contact” today are triggered by religious and political disagreements, such as family members’ unwillingness to enthusiastically endorse LGBTQ behaviors and disinclination to vote for Democrats.

One of Noelle’s gifts is taking seriously the perspective of those she critiques, a relationship art and discussion tone that is rare today. She is good at understanding and explaining without judgement how someone could arrive at an action as extreme-sounding as cutting off his dad for watching Fox News. Mering explains, “Today, political disputes are not merely about means but about ends — dealing with questions that go directly to the heart of what it means to be human… Increasingly, younger people project this concept of political alignment as the determinant of moral stature onto an older generation that generally doesn’t view disagreements in the same way” (emphasis original).

Appropriating Trauma and Abuse

One of my favorite sections explores the phenomenon of “broadening the definition of trauma.” As Noelle notes in chapter 3, “Therapy-speak has come to pervade........

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