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How should we understand ‘cancel culture’?

Moral Maze

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The Moral Vision of Free Speech

Kathleen Stock is now all over every media outlet, and she hasn't been cancelled. It's a bit like saying if somebody tries to murder somebody and they only emerge with a head wound, it wasn't really a bad attack. I mean, where is the moral vision in this? Nobody's thinking of you about determination being bad, mobbing being bad, death threats being bad. And shutting the attempt to silence somebody on the basis that they simply have a view which... But I do think it's perfectly reasonable to protest against views which you feel are wrong.

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