Is Cancel Culture a thing?: A centrist White guy’s guide to the weaponization of free speech.

A centrist White guy's guide to the weaponization of free speech by Gareth Morley Gareth Morley is a lawyer with the British Columbia Ministry of Attorney General and a member of the Inroads editorial board. Is Cancel Culture a thing? In some cases - most transparently Trump's or Cotton's, but also...

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Publicado en:Inroads no. 48; pp. 126 - 136
Autor principal: Morley, Gareth
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Publicado: Inroads Journal Publishing, Inc. Winter/Spring2021
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Sumario:A centrist White guy's guide to the weaponization of free speech by Gareth Morley Gareth Morley is a lawyer with the British Columbia Ministry of Attorney General and a member of the Inroads editorial board. Is Cancel Culture a thing? In some cases - most transparently Trump's or Cotton's, but also among their anti-Cancel critics - it is a rhetorical device to silence or marginalize the people the user of the phrase disagrees with. The anti-Trump-anti-Cancel-Culture coalition was more concerned with what happened to Bennett, as editor, than with really defending the Cotton op-ed.