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Cancel Culture and the Hypocrisy of its Enforcers
29:01 - 35:41 (06:39)
The rise of cancel culture and the hypocrisy of its enforcers is discussed, with examples of people losing their jobs for expressing opinions and the irony of advocates of social justice being the chief practitioners.
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The culture war is largely engineered and motored by people like the people who work at The Guardian, and it's something that exists over the Atlantic as well.
29:01 - 34:46 (05:44)
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The culture war is largely engineered and motored by people like the people who work at The Guardian, and it's something that exists over the Atlantic as well. There's a couple of threads online which have hundreds and hundreds of examples of people who've lost their jobs for something they've said at work, or something that's, of course, it exists.
ChapterCancel Culture and the Hypocrisy of its Enforcers
Episode#283 - Andrew Doyle - Free Speech And Why It Matters
PodcastModern Wisdom
The notion that cancel culture only affects right-wingers and conservative voices is a fallacy, as the phenomenon can target anyone, rich or poor.
34:46 - 35:41 (00:54)
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The notion that cancel culture only affects right-wingers and conservative voices is a fallacy, as the phenomenon can target anyone, rich or poor. However, the fact that billionaires are more likely to come out unscathed reveals how cancel culture is a social inequality issue.