
Feminism & Psychoanalysis with Mari Ruti
Why Theory
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Cancel Culture?
Cancel culture is a project to, uh, bring awareness and sympathy and understanding to positions that had not been understood before. Only problem, it doesn't actually correct politics. You cannot whack-a-mole enough bad actors to stop the acting. It's not possible. And I understand why it's appealing. The appeal of cancel culture is that it seems to be able to attack power directly. But what you are saying is that it plays right into the hands of the right That takes incredible enjoyment out of this spectacle, but the left is kind of putting up for them.
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