In the woman’s case, a contingent of supporters just want to fight cancel culture, said Franciska Coleman, an assistant professor of law at University of Wisconsin Law School, who has written about cancel culture and social regulation of speech. For some it can include donating “to everyone who they in quotes try to ‘cancel.’”
Some people are focused on how “it just seems too much that this mother of two young kids is getting death threats and rape threats,” Coleman said.