On Cancel Culture and the State of Free Speech
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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Are You Receiving Threats? No, It Wasn't Threats
A, no, it wasn't threats. I think thatits hard to get, you know, people to understand as it's not threats, it's ostracism. It's shame. There's a sort of dampening effect where, if your name is so toxic, nobody wants to associate with you. Ah, so it's just so humiliating on a very large scale. We've seen performers, ar authors, others who who have gone through these passages. But dave chapel say, j k, rowling, um chapell's not going to stop making comedy. JK Rowling orll continue writing novels. They are in ary. They know what they're doing
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