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How should we understand ‘cancel culture’?

Moral Maze

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Clara Barker's Unease With the Line of Questioning

The second speaker acknowledged that no one should be facing a campaign of threats and intimidation. But we really have to remember that Kathleen was deemed divisive and controversial, and then all of the reaction to her ensued. So it wasn't that she intentionally set out to provoke ... It was the climate around the discussion that raised the temperature of that debate. And also to protect people who may be vulnerable from mental distress because some of those questions about identity are being erased in the public conversation.

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