Reading Time: 6 minutes On March 30, scholar Dr. Robert Price was interviewed on YouTube and the discussion ended up being pretty controversial for some, not so much for others. What ensued was a small storm in one corner of the internet. Dr. Price was, in one case, de-platformed as a result. Many shouted accusations of censorship, confusing that […]
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Putin’s complaints about ‘cancel culture’ ring hollow given Russia’s methods of ‘cancelling’ critics
Reading Time: 3 minutes First the Russian regime poisoned Alexei Navalny in 2020, after he urged Russians to rid themselves of Vladimir Putin and his corrupt cronies. In this video he branded his country “an insatiable toad”. After he survived the assassination attempt, he was jailed earlier this week on what his many supporters say were trumped up charges […]
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3 ways to combat the ‘worst timeline’ blues
Reading Time: 5 minutes When I left Canada in 2018, I had a few reasons for my choice. One was economic. Another was no longer wishing to be part of the culture. Both are complicated, because plenty of people are trapped in economic hellscapes and cannot stand their culture, so what made me different? It’s the worst timeline for […]
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Culture Wars as a Cynical Strategy in the Face of a Lack of Economic and Social Policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been arguing elsewhere with a good friend about identity politics and culture wars. I have written before about the culture wars narrative, in which cancel culture features so heavily. This discussion went something like this [excuse typos and grammar as lifted from Facebook and Messenger]: JP: Ok, business as usual here. This government […]
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GB News (UK’s FOX News) Embroiled in Cancel Culture…
Reading Time: 7 minutes This perhaps comes as no surprise to those cynical ones amongst us. GB News has just started up in the UK and it is a clusterf*ck of FOX News copycat opinion TV, polemically arguing for free speech in a very partisan manner. It has been involved in an…interesting nativity… The rest of the context is […]
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The Left and Their Cancel Culture!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Goddamned lefties and their cancel culture, as the Boston Globe reports: As the debate over the teaching of critical race theory in the classroom intensifies across the country, the firing of a Tennessee teacher last month emerged as a flashpoint in the discussion over the weekend. Matthew Hawn, who had been a tenured teacher at the Sullivan […]
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Cancel Culture: Some Stimulation for Debate
Reading Time: 4 minutes Cancel culture is coming up in debate in the threads here an awful lot, and I really do think that some people have been sucked in by the perpetual narrative from the right that this is a leftist problem. If we look at the history of the phenomenon, we can see it wind its way […]
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Reflections on Dawkins and the AHA
Reading Time: 9 minutes The AHA have just rescinded an award they gave to Richard Dawkins in 1996. It seems like this episode has created something of a hubbub in the skeptical community – itself a bunch of people loosely associating with each other by hanging around on atheist websites like this. Herding cats, and all that. The background […]
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The Great Awokening: Cancel Culture & JK Rowling
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is my conversation with David French on Unbelievable on the subject of cancel culture. I stress “conversation” because, although this was a debate, it was actually more like a good ole chat. I don’t think anyone won, not least because an hour is not enough time to get to grips with the subject, hence […]
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Why Cancel Culture is Largely a Myth for Use in the Culture Wars
Reading Time: < 1 minute In response to the really enjoyable conversation I had the other night in recording an episode of Premier Christian Radio’s Unbelievable with Justin Brierley and David French, I felt I needed to express my whole case given that an hour for three people to talk in doesn’t afford you quite enough. Anyway, here are most […]