3RT:21 - Cannon's Cancel
Three Right Turns
English - July 22, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes - ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture politics society Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Lots of people asked me what I though about the Letter on Justice and Open Debate in Harper's Magazine, the signatories of which is a who's who of famous authors, academics, and intellectuals. Well, I had a lot of thoughts. We examine the phenomenon of "cancel culture" through a historical lens, before looking into the details of two recent examples of attempted cancellations; Lin Manuel Miranda and "Hamilton", and Nick Cannon's controversial comments on a recent podcast.