Uncancelling the American Mind

Forward

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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How did cancel culture emerge — and what is it really? Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott join Andrew to talk about how cancel culture has come to replace genuine debate on both left and right, how young people see cancel culture, and how a culture of free speech can be restored. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/K6pR6qdMTgY Cancelling of the American Mind - https://amzn.to/40cBC25 Follow Greg Lukianoff: https://greglukianoff.substack.com | https://twitter.com/glukianoff Follow Rikki Schlott: https://rikkischlott.com | https://twitter.com/rikkischlott Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on Forward, this destroys trust and expertise because when people
0:07.5	look at this like okay someone just said some things seem to seem to have a
0:10.3	reasonable point and that person kind of lost their career for it. I'm not even
0:16.4	sure you tell me what the truth was because all the incentives are on the side
0:20.2	of say the thing that won't get you canceled. So I think that there's a an
0:25.2	impetus on on restoring our K to 12 education to actually teach these
0:29.8	principles of free speech and pluralism and why our inheritance is so
0:33.5	profound and why it's so delicate and why it's our civic duty to uphold it. One
0:39.0	of the best ways to really have a free speech culture is to work together to
0:43.4	solve specific hard problems not just a consciousness raise on the evil
0:48.7	evils of the world it is my distinct pleasure to welcome to the podcast back in
1:05.7	Ricky's case the co-authors of the brand new book the canceling of the
1:10.4	American mind New York Post columnist and journalist Ricky Schlott and the
1:16.5	president of fire which is the foundation or individual rights and expression
1:20.9	fire Greg Luke Yanov welcome Ricky and Greg thanks so much a big fan of yours so
1:27.2	glad to be back thank you yes congratulations on this book if someone looks
1:32.9	closely they will see that I have a blurb on this book so you know I like it.
1:37.2	The first one on the hardcover we put it right at the top we were so proud to
1:41.1	have your endorsement because it's a very very important work but first let's
1:46.2	introduce or reintroduce people to who the heck you guys are so Ricky you are a
1:53.0	whole 23 years old and yet you're now the co-author of this major book and I
1:57.3	dare say that in some ways you were set on this path by an interaction with
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