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#300 — A Tale of Cancellation

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Difference Between Criticizing a Film or Documentary and Taking It Down

I think criticism is something that is helpful for dialogue and also sometimes can make you a better writer or a better filmmaker. But I differentiate between criticizing a piece of work and orchestrating an actual attack to take it down. There's difference between tweeting, I don't like this film and then hiring lawyers to try to scare people off the project by harassing them online. The attacks started way before anyone had actually seen the film. And so if I was a documentary filmmaker and a Muslim and I saw that Sundance had programmed a film about terrorism done by this white lady who's not a Muslim, I would think too that these films were going to be attacked as well.

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