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On Cancel Culture and the State of Free Speech

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Cancel Culture

Alexandria acasio cortez is one of the most influential progressives in electoral politics to day. She is also a master of social media, so there's probably no better person to understand her position on cancel culture. It is like the speck of dust around which the raindrop must form in order to precipitate take over the school boards and push actual discourse out of acceptable norms. They needed, and they need, the concept of cancel culture justify a political programme of takeover, or really, at least a con further concentration of their own power.

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