Cancel Culture

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• SOURCE: Substack
  3/6/2023
  

  On "Cancel Culture"

  by Thomas Zimmer

  The alleged "cancellation" of Scott Adams shows that many pundits decrying "cancel culture" from the center are actually more interested in holding the power to declare ideas out of bounds than in letting the marketplace of ideas sort them out. 

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  2/7/2022
  

  Is "Cancel Culture" an Existential Threat to America or a Moral Panic?

  by Michael Hobbes

  Podcaster and moral panic debunker Michael Hobbes asks what's really happening with the current "cancel culture" uproar. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/4/2022
  

  The Non-Existent "Cancellation" of Norman Mailer

  "Indeed, the junior staffers I’ve spoken to at Penguin Random House laughed off the insinuation that any of them had the power to kill a book."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/15/2021
  

  Why I'm Tired of Hearing About "Wokeness"

  by Regina Rini

  "Perhaps the worst effect of the anti-Wokeist rhetoric invading academe is that it drowns out more careful critiques of so-called “Woke” policies."

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  10/18/2021
  

  Claremont's Bogus "Censorship" Charge Against American Political Science Association

  "As with almost any instance of so-called cancel culture, the question at hand is ultimately a specific substantive one: What did John Eastman do and was it wrong?"

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/30/2021
  

  Beverly Gage Resigns from Yale's Grand Strategy Program, Citing Political Pressure from Large Donors

  After a colleague wrote an op ed critical of Donald Trump in 2020, two Republican donors insisted on appointing an advisory board to the Grand Strategy program which included, against Professor Gage's wishes, Henry Kissinger.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/13/2021
  

  Has BYU Canceled a Leading Historian of Mormonism?

  The Neal A. Maxwell Institute appears to be disavowing its previous connections to historian Benjamin Park. Is it because of his objections to some LDS leaders' positions on LGBTQ issues and masking and vaccination in response to COVID? 

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• SOURCE: TeenVogue
  5/19/2021
  

  Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards

  by Asheesh Kapur Siddique

  The real power at American universities lies with their boards of directors, which are increasingly drawn from the ranks of corporate America and have shown themselves willing to enforce ideological restrictions on teaching and research. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/5/2021
  

  France Battles Over Whether to "Cancel" or Celebrate Napoleon

  French President Macron will place a wreath on the former Emperor's tomb to commemorate the bicentennial of his death, as French citizens debate his legacy including his contempt for Republicanism both in independent Haiti and in France itself.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/26/2021
  

  The Social Justice Purge at Idaho Colleges

  Concerns about free speech on campus should consider the Idaho legislature's recent attacks on "critical race theory" as an effort to use education funds to restrict academic freedom, says NYT opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg.

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• 3/21/2021
  

  The Same Mistakes Twice? Teaching Dr. Seuss

  by Walter Kamphoefner

  Step back from the current media controversy and consider how Theodor Geisel's cartooning illustrate the contradictory nature of America's posture toward foreign and domestic racism in the World War II era, a pivotal moment for the nation that must be understood in all its complication. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/16/2021
  

  Why We Should Cancel The Phrase ‘Cancel Culture’

  by Max Boot

  There are legitimate and important arguments about how much society should tolerate offensive or controversial speech, and how much the markets or public opinion should sanction individuals for what they say. The current "cancel culture" outrage on the right has nothing to do with these arguments. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/9/2021
  

  Dr. Philip Nel on the Legacy of Dr. Seuss

  "A lot of people have a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea that an artist and a writer can be both a genius and a racist, can do brilliant work and be profoundly damaging. Those are not mutually exclusive categories."

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay News Weekly
  3/3/2021
  

  Historian Unjustly Forced to Walk the Plank

  by Michael E. Carter

  When a historian published an editoral about the history of piracy near Tampa Bay during Super Bowl Week, right-wing media took an effort to present historical knowledge as evidence of a liberal culture war, subjecting them to harassment and threats in their own cancel culture campaign. Is the goal to intimidate historians from weighing in? 

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• SOURCE: Open Democracy
  3/2/2021
  

  The UK Government’s Obsession with ‘Culture Wars’ is a Threat to Democracy

  In the British debate over the public history of colonialism and empire, are conservative government ministers the ones really engaged in "cancel culture"? 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  3/3/2021
  

  How Dr. Seuss Responded to Critics Who Called Out His Racism

  by Rebecca Onion

  If anyone wants to examine the particulars of Dr. Seuss Enterprises' decision to discontinue the publication of six of the late author's books before jumping in to culture war combat, writer Rebecca Onion's interview with children's literature scholar Philip Nel is a good place to start. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/26/2021
  

  The Campaign to Cancel Wokeness

  Columnist Michelle Goldberg examines the roots of the academic Critical Race Theory movement, and concludes that while its practitioners are sometimes willing to prioritize justice over free speech, the right today simply wants to suppress ideas it fears.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/19/2021
  

  Rush Limbaugh and the Nineties Roots of “Cancel Culture”

  by Alex Pareene

  Rush Limbaugh's career ended in a siloed media environment where the right occupied its own channels. But it began in a mainstream media that was eager to profit by marketing his brand of down-punching reactionary grievance. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  8/28/2020
  

  Whose Anger Counts?

  by Whitney Phillips

  Many complaints about "cancel culture" depend on a false equivalency between left and right forms of internet argument that ignores the nature of far-right online harassment as a tool of power.