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How should we understand ‘cancel culture’?

Moral Maze

CHAPTER

Fear of Cancellation Culture

I think there's a dialectic. And for me, so have I been silenced? Well, not if you take the whole picture, because I've got vocal cords. You want to get a complex picture of those people. Just cherry pick the most inflammatory sentences and put them under your name. Then you're going to get a whole lot of flack for that without anyone understanding why you think that. There isn't a moral panic. Universities and public institutions are places where you can still have debates. It's just empirically false, I'm afraid. If you think that, then you're just not talking to the women that I'm talking to,. both within universities and in ordinary

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