The Culture War Is Over

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'The pandemic killed it, right? I wrote an cle at the time, which was called er. And i got criticised a lot for it,' he says. 'Then there was george floyd, then there was the black life's matter protest and now it's everywhere.' He adds that people who should be reflecting on their position are just doubling down on fantasies.

Political Correctness has formed the basis for a new intolerant mindset, actively policing speech that is deemed offensive or controversial. Rather than confront bad ideas through discussion, it has now become common to intimidate one’s detractors into silence. Taking on board legitimate concerns about how speech can be harmful, Andrew Doyle argues that the alternative — an authoritarian world in which our freedoms are surrendered to those in power — has far worse consequences.