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On Cancel Culture and the State of Free Speech

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Role of Cancel Culture on Social Media

When you look at so called cancel culture on social media, some argue it's effectively limiting people's free speech. But others argue it's just the opposite. It's democratization of expression. Aren't students who protest college speakers just engaging in free speech themselves? I think people in power have gone away with shit for a very long time, and they're the ones that are easily offended. You cannot really animate or concentrate a movement like that without a sense of cutionor victimhood. And that is what the role of cancel culture is. Is it something that you personally worry about? Do you think about making sure that you say the right thing so that you don't draw a back

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