In public school, way back before I was even a teenager, we had to do projects that were put on display for adults and public.
I was very keen on animal welfare, long before animal welfare was a thing.
I did a scathing project on the cruelty of the Calgary Stampede. How they put things under the saddles to make horses buck. How they nearly break calfs necks roping them. How horses often died after wagon races (sometimes during). And a whole lot of other nasty things that went on at this event.
Well, despite being a little girl, you would not believe the backlash I got. I got yelled at during the show. People threatened to destroy my display right on the spot. They even went after my family too, (though fortunately, my father was a Sergeant Major and that put an end to a lot of harassment).
For months afterwards I was name called and pooh-bahed and basically – cancelled.
Then decades later I saw an article on the cruelty of the Stampede and how animal rights activists were protesting against the event.
I had to wait a long time to be uncancelled.