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The Dershow

Cancel Culture must be Canceled

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

From Dr. Seuss to Amazon changing its logo Cancel Culture is out-of-hand.

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0:00.0

The Dr. Suspruhaha proves one thing.

0:05.0

Cancel culture must be canceled.

0:10.0

We must not tolerate people telling us what we can read,

0:15.0

what we can see, and how we educate our children.

0:19.0

Cancel the cancel culture.

0:21.0

Today, on The Dershow.

0:24.0

The continued vruhaha over Dr. Sus in his books.

0:29.0

It provides, I think, a useful opportunity to think about

0:34.0

how cancel culture can be used both in a somewhat positive

0:39.0

and in a totally negative way.

0:43.0

There are two approaches to cancel culture, basically.

0:46.0

Number one, you cancel the entire person.

0:50.0

So you say that we're never again going to allow this person to speak.

0:55.0

We're never going to listen to his or her music

0:58.0

or view his art.

0:59.0

He is out of the culture.

1:02.0

He is now canceled period.

1:04.0

That's one approach.

1:05.0

The other approach is the guy is not so bad or the woman,

1:10.0

but they did something bad.

1:12.0

They wrote one book or had a cartoon or made a statement.

1:17.0

And we'd like to cancel that.

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