Let's reframe cancel culture | Sarah Jones

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Cancel culture launched a reckoning that was long overdue — but that doesn't mean it's getting everything right. Filmmaker and actor Sarah Jones slips in and out of various characters as she shares her personal experience with cancel culture and suggests a better way to hold others — and ourselves — to account.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:13.9	Get ready.
0:14.9	We're about to meet a bunch of characters in one Ted Talk, all thanks to the Tony Award
0:19.7	winning performer Sarah Jones.
0:22.2	In her fast-changing performance from Ted 2023, she addresses the fear of being canceled
0:27.5	in our society.
0:28.9	We're talking about her own personal experience with it and offering a way to give each other
0:34.0	and ourselves some grace after the break.
0:39.4	Blockchain NFTs AI.
0:41.9	What does this mean for you and me?
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0:49.0	and biggest ideas in tech.
0:51.2	Tech is evolving fast in it affects our lives.
0:53.7	From the metaverse to the watches on our wrists, you'll learn why people in AI make good
0:57.9	business partners about our future self-driving Robo Taxi, what the next generation of
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1:12.2	As a writer and performer, for years I have been known for giving voice or voices to the
1:20.7	many diverse characters I play on stage and, more recently, in my film, cell by date,
1:28.4	my characters, these characters, some of whom you are about to meet, are based on people
1:34.3	from my real life, including my very real mixed race family.
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