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The Canceling of the American Mind
The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us AllBut There Is a Solution | Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
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A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind. Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects. From the team that brought you the bestselling Coddling of the American Mind comes hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new examples showing the left and the right both working to silence their enemies. The Canceling of the American Mind will change how you view cancel culture. Rather than a moral panic, we should consider it a dysfunctional part of how Americans battle for power, status, and dominance. Cancel culture is just one symptom of a much larger problem: the use of cheap rhetorical tactics to win arguments without actually winning arguments. After all, why bother refuting your opponents when you can just take away their platform or career? The good news is that we can beat back this threat to democracy through better citizenship. The Canceling of the American Mind offers concrete steps toward reclaiming a free speech culture, with materials specifically tailored for parents, teachers, business leaders, and everyone who uses social media. We can all show intellectual humility and promote the essential American principles of individuality, resilience, and open mindedness.
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A crucial book! Readers who enjoyed this might also enjoy Lukianoff's other book, "The Coddling of the American Mind," as well as John McWhorter's "Woke Racism."

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Ddzmini When you post these I read them and they always make me think of how everything is structured and how that‘s not always a good thing 🙌🏽 5mo
keithmalek @Ddzmini Indeed. 5mo
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This is what happens when one of the most respected scientific journals forgets what its purpose is, and chooses ibstead to pursue "social justice," woke bullshit.

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An anonymous student in an elite doctoral program.

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Ethan Blevins, attorney from the Pacific Legal Foundation

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(Continued)...and potentially live less restricted lives." ??????????

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(Continued)...harmful."

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David French

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A survey from NYU's Brennan Center for Justice found seventeen percent of local election officials across the country have received threats in the wake of the 2020 election. And a Reuters analysis that investigated 850 threats made against election workers by Trump supporters found more than 100 reached a threshold for prosecution.

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Blueberry Phillipine Islands, American, grandfather? My goodness. 6mo
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I've been wondering why journalists have been calling gay men "men who have sex with men." I instinctively knew that it must be some sort of woke bullshit. Yup. I was right. It's about "victimhood."

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(Continued)...REALLY be black. It's a worldview perfectly protected from challenges: the non-Blacks who disagree can be dismissed because they're not Black, and the Blacks who disagree can be dismissed because they aren't either."

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(Continued)...Asians. Both these terms effectively dissolve their racial differentiation from white people.

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(Continued)..."white folks are violent, bored and pathetic."

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(Continued)...institutional power, and therefore, any generalizations about white people are excusable.

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(Continued)...standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you are right. And even if you are genuinely representing the little guy, that fact does not absolve your side from scrutiny.

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...students' request for empathy and compassion during a time of civil unrest." In a message to the UCLA community, the dean of the school of management characterized Klein as having "a disregard for our core principals" and called Klein's email an "abuse of power."

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A quote from "The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses" by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silvergate.

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Scholarship, science, and democracy itself all rely on a humble realization: that we may all be wrong. Therefore, rather than cancel our opposition, we must listen carefully to what they say. Then we can refute it, accept it, or come to some new position.
But Cancel Culture is an attempt to shrug off that responsibility.