(or more precisely, it entered AAVE slang usage via Chic's song "Your Love is Cancelled", and hung out there for decades until white right-wing grievance grifters lifted it from Black Twitter and started loudly using it wrong.)
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in other news, at least according to the historical accounting provided by yesterday's Post Reports podcast, apparently the term "canceled" is actually Nile Rodgers' fault
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well, not really "fault" so much as originated from a Chic song long before white people misappropriated it.
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