Cancel Culture

 It seems cancel culture isn't all that new.  In the martyrology for 15 December we find Genseric of the Vandals having a go at it:

In the same country, [north Africa] the holy bishop Valerian, who, being upwards of eighty years old,  in the persecution of the Vandals, under the Arian King Genseric, was asked to deliver the vessels of the church, and as he constantly refused, an order was issued to drive him all alone out of the city, and all were forbidden to allow him to stay either in their houses or on their land. For a long time he remained lying on the public road, in the open air, and thus, in the confession and defense of the Catholic verity, closed his blessed life.

No doubt if St Valerian  had had a credit card or a web page those would have been done away with also.  So it seems our current masters have a patron non-saint in Genseric.   And how appropriate that he should have been a Vandal, too, a word that has come down to us with all sorts of appropriate linguistic baggage.