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In Episode 52, we welcome back friend of the pod Freddie deBoer to discuss his upcoming book How the Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement and why we should take social justice politics seriously. We talk about identity politics and identiarianism, condescending deference, cancel culture, and the right wing reaction to all of this. We find out that when it comes to aliens, Freddie wants to believe.Part of the Talking Shit series. Show NotesHow the Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement (Freddie's new book)Freddie's substackFreddie's websiteFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

In Episode 51, we discuss Black American English, also known as AAVE, as a way to consider some of the differences between identitarian and identity politics approaches. Black American English is minority dialect in the United States of America. The identitarian approach to protecting Black American English typically involves appropriation discourse and the restriction of who can use Black American English on the basis of racial idenity. We offer another approach, one based in identity politics, which treats Black American English as a minority language deserving of legal protection and recognition. This approach does not restrict who can learn or speak Black American English, but does insist there are correct and incorrect ways to speak it, and, more importantly, focuses on the rights of native Black American English speakers, regardless of racial identity. Part of the Identity Crisis series.Show NotesCould Black English Mean a Prison Sentence? by John McWhorter: "An upcoming study in the linguistics journal Language found that 27 Philadelphia [court] stenographers, presented with recordings of Black English grammatical patterns, made transcription errors on average in two out of every five sentences, and could accurately paraphrase only one in three sentences."Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter: Black Like UsLexicon Valley with John McWhorter: What Had Happened Was StorytellingLexicon Valley with John McWhorter: White Author, Black English. Problem?Quebec's Charter of the French LanguageAboriginal Language Knowledge and Youth Suicide: "Youth suicide rates effectively dropped to zero in those few communities in which at least half the band members reported a conversational knowledge of their own Native language."Indigenous Language Organizations and InitiativesFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

In Episode 50, we sit down with Bebe Montoya, an artist, writer and socialist from Portland, Oregon, USA. We talk about being a working artist, the sanitization of art, and the imperative for artists to act like brands or celebrities. We discuss identitarianism, racial essentialism, and the trials and tribulations of trying to be a socialist in Portland.  Part of the Talking Shit series.Show NotesBebe's websiteBebe's InstagramBebe's PatreonThe Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark MansonRussia novel "controversy"Tomorrow Ever After movieFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

In Episode 49, we discuss historical materialism, a foundational concept within Marxist theory, and look at how it offers a much better way of understanding the world we find ourselves in than identitarianism does. Also, Clementine discovers that she may be a Marxist-Leninist.Part of the Identity Crisis series.Show NotesRacecraft by Fields and FieldsBase and SuperstructureEarly European FarmersThe Indo-European MigrationsThe Bantu ExpansionThe Austronesian ExpansionThe Inca Civil WarFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Xander Moon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

In Episode 48, we are joined by English punkrocker and friend of the pod, Jonny "Itch" Fox of the King Blues! We discuss the connection between working class consciousness and punk, addiction recovery, why it's important to keep a positive attitude, and the impact of cancel culture on music and politics. We also get to hear Itch's story from a young kid figuring it out in the streets of London, his rise to fame, the impact of cancellation, and his commitment to what he believes in. It's a beautiful and empowering story. Part of the Replatformed series.Show NotesThe King Blues on instagramItch's instagramFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Xander Moon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

In Episode 47, we finally make it to Step 3. We talk letting go and letting God, what it means to be right-sized, and why you can't be the actor and the director at the same time. Part of the Half Measures Availed Us Nothing series.Show NotesFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Xander Moon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

In Episode 46, we discuss the Fucking Cancelled 2023 American tour, followed by a deep dive into our controversial argument that murder is wrong in all circumstances. Attempting to take up the arguments of certain pro-murder anarchists in good faith, we nonetheless maintain that murdering people you don't like is bad.Part of the Nobody’s Getting Cancelled series.Show NotesFucking Cancelled Goes on TourFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

In Episode 45, we're joined by friend of the pod Alexia Roditis, lead singer of the California band Destroy Boys. We talk about the impact of cancel culture on musicianship, navigating the Nexus while young, and how acting like a cop all the time isn't very punk. We finish off with an acoustic performance of some of our favourite Destroy Boys songs.Part of the Replatformed series.Show NotesFUCKING CANCELLED IS ON TOUR! For details, click here.Alexia's IGDestroy BoysDestroy Boys IGFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

In Episode 44, we're joined by friend of the pod Kier Adrian Gray, a writer and recovering social justice kid based in Vancouver. We discuss the trials and tribulations of being an anarchist in Montreal, the effects of toxic social justice world on mental health, how to get out of the Nexus, and what to do once you're out. Part of the Experience, Strength, and Hope series.Show NotesFUCKING CANCELLED IS GOING ON TOUR! For details, click here.Kier's SubstackKier's resource listKier's IGFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

In episode 43 we are honoured to be joined by Dr. Adolph Reed Jr., professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, long time organizer, and prolific scholar. We discuss the collapse of the Left in North America, the Nexus as the 'left wing of neoliberalism', race reductionism, identiarianism, and the need to work toward a politics of solidarity and class consciousness. Part of the Talking Shit series.Show NotesClass Matters PodcastThe South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives by Adolph Reed Jr.No Politics but Class Politics by Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr.The Trouble with Disparityby Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr.Disparity Ideology, Coronavirus, and the Danger of the Return of Racial Medicine by Adolph Reed Jr.The Crisis of Labour and the Left in the United States by Mark Dudzic and Adolph Reed Jr.Racecraft by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. FieldsRace, Culture, and Evolution by George W. Stocking, Jr.The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe