Cancel Culture, Part 2: A Case Study

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday on “The Daily,” the New York Times reporter Jonah Bromwich explained how the idea of cancel culture has emerged as a political and cultural force in 2020. In the second of two parts, he returns with a case study. Guest: Jonah Engel Bromwich, who writes for the Styles section of The New York Times, spoke with Zeeshan Aleem about his experience of cancel culture. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: Here’s the first episode in this two-part series exploring cancel culture’s origins and political power.There’s an emerging class of people canceled for bad, conservative or offensive opinions. Cancellation is bringing many of them together.For teenagers, cancellation on social media is not a new phenomenon. Here are some of their own experiences with being canceled.

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0:26.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow.
0:33.0	This is a daily.
0:35.0	If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right, then I can sit back and
0:41.8	feel pretty good about myself.
0:43.3	Because man, you see how a walk I was, I called you out.
0:47.3	I've been canceled.
0:48.8	I've been canceled before they had canceled culture.
0:51.2	The only thing that has changed is that people being heard accountable are folks who always
0:54.3	thought they were untouchable and now they realize they're not.
0:57.8	Yesterday, my colleague, Jonah Bromwich, explained how cancel culture has emerged as a political
1:04.0	and cultural force in 2020.
1:06.7	One of their political weapons is cancel culture, driving people from their jobs.
1:13.6	Today, Jonah returns with a case study.
1:18.5	It's Tuesday, August 11.
1:23.4	You may not even remember me from high school because you were in my brother's grade.
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