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PREVIEW: Osita Nwanevu on 'cancel culture'

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Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson and amusements editor Lyta Gold sit down with Osita Nwanevu, staff writer at The New Republic, to discuss his recent article 'The "Cancel Culture" Con'. This episode is a preview of an episode available in full to our Patreon subscribers. To gain full access to this episode, as well as lots of other brilliant bonus content, please consider becoming one of our subscribers at www.patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!

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0:00.0

Republicans and conservatives who say that they hate that there's no free speech on campuses

0:04.7

anymore, people aren't allowed to say what they want to say as professors or as speakers,

0:10.0

whatever.

0:11.0

And those people then will pass legislation in some cases to restrict the ability of certain

0:18.0

professors to express themselves, to make sure that the campus speech is happening in a certain way that they find their cords

0:23.9

more neatly with the principles they think should be held on campus.

0:26.7

They will then use the power of government to impose a new kind of speech regime

0:33.0

in situations where they criticize protesters and student activists for hitting against free speech.

0:38.3

Like, nobody actually cares about the principles at hand in these conversations.

0:41.9

It's always about using those principles as a cudgel against a set of people.

0:47.9

They don't like advancing a set of concerns that they don't like.

0:51.1

It's this kind of weird proxy battle we find ourselves in time, time again,

0:54.5

where people aren't arguing against what the SJWs are actually saying. They're arguing against

0:59.9

how the SJWs are expressing themselves or how they're protesting as a way to avoid that conversation.

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