Hi, I'm David Pena Guzman.

And I'm Ellie Anderson.

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I feel like recently cancel culture has just sort of blown up.

It previously was this charge that people on the right were making towards those on the

left, like woke leftist cancel culture has gone too far. And now suddenly what I'm seeing is that

people on the right are canceling people and people on the left are like cancel culture has gone

too far. What's going on here? Well, I definitely have heard about people on the right suddenly claiming the power of cancel

culture, but I'm not super familiar with the leftist critiques of cancel culture.

But the other way around, I think, for example, about Pierce Morgan, who recently called

for the cancellation of Chrissy Teigen,

whom he calls the counselor-in-chief. So this notion that just as this leftist woman

called for the cancellation of other people, when it came out that she had sent some

troubling text to another person, he said, it was no, she was like an online bully, right?

Yes, yeah.

And so he says, if the left is going to be consistent, the left needs to devour its own

through the logic of cancellation.

Totally.

And Candice Owens also talked about how we need to cancel Chrissy Teigen and then was like,

no, it's not cancel

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