On our Politics and More podcast, listen to conversations about free speech and so-called cancel culture with AOC, the former academic WDeresiewicz, and the comedy historian ClassicShowbiz.
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The author William Deresiewicz, who formerly taught English at Yale University, describes what he sees as essential threats to free speech—and ultimately to the process of education—on campuses across the country. Students, he says, are afraid to speak their minds, in fear of a backlash. Deresiewicz sees the impact of cancel culture extending well beyond newsworthy cancellations of prominent people. “For every high-profile cancellation . . .
. “And, even more importantly, for every one of those, there are a thousand people . . . who just keep their mouth shut.”, on the other hand, argues that cancel culture isn’t real. It’s largely, she says, an excuse made by those on the political right to lodge their own restrictions on what can be said in the public sphere. Kliph Nesteroff, a historian of comedy, agrees with that assessment.
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