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Patrick Berzai's avatar

I can’t wait until Spinal Tap gets a hold of Woke; their Woke will go to eleven.

jabster's avatar

If "cancel culture" was really about "accountability", then it's another example of authority resisting accountability, because it's not bidirectional. The cancelers aren't subject to--and are quite evasive of--measures to impose accountability on themselves.

Ken Kovar's avatar

All real problems that unfortunately are kind of trivial given the right wing assault on higher education, science and medicine! Trump and his minions want to cancel everything in that domain. How about dedicating your next column and book to how Trump and his right wing donors are actively destroying our precious academies and denying science because to appeal to their ignorant base! You could easily get 5 books out of it without even trying 🤔😂😡🤮

Greg Lukianoff's avatar

I am literally in court with the Trump administration and Trump himself over his attacks on higher education and freedom of speech. That’s not an excuse to never think about what actually caused the backlash in the first place. Both hard right and hard left can be an often are bad at the same time.

Ken Kovar's avatar

Keep up the resistance!!!

jabster's avatar

As I like to say, the endgame of cancel culture is not cowering conservatives. It's Mutually Assured Destruction. A strange game, yadda yadda yadda.

Russ Mitchell's avatar

Blame the IRS and the courts for refusing to allow adjuncts to be paid as contractors -- because that is what we clearly are. It would be better for the universities AND the instructors.

Denton Salle's avatar

That graph from FIRE sure disagrees with my experiences.