Cancel Culture 150 Authors

[fender62]

agree disagree, illiberalism? debate! yes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8500911/JK-Rowling-joins-150-authors-academics-calling-end-cancel-culture.html

[youngmafbog]

Of course this ridiculous 'cancel culture' should be stopped.

Anything that stifles proper debate should not exist in s free society.

Too often this cancelling is used because those with a particular agenda are people with odd views and no real argument for them.

[Mozz71]

I disagree with what JK Rowling said, bit she has every right to voice her opinion without suffering such a backlash. The right to free speech has to be respected, or we heading into a Chinese state.

[Old_Geezer]

Got bored skimming the article. What exacting are they cancelling ?

[iluvmargie]

Totally agree with them.

[douglas9401]

Fascists, as usual. Party line or nothing.

[ichkeria]

"The right to free speech has to be respected, or we heading into a Chinese state"

You may inadvertently have put your finger on the real problem :-)

[Peter Pedant]

oh cancel because of your views
and not c"cancel because of covid rather than find a way round"

they were doing this in 1975 when I was a student.
wasnt David Irving - the british Nazi one of the early casualties

[wrote a book about the Nazi nuclear program which was a conplete zero - the program and not the book.

practical physics SO bad they would have died of radiation sickness if they had achieved a chain reaction - they didnt so they hadnt]

[Peter Pedant]

outbreak of free speech amongst all the aryans and white supremacists?

what is this? - or what has gone wrong?

[ToraToraTora]

yes we do seem to be caught in an era of Liberal Fascism.

[allenlondon]

Peter (“ outbreak of free speech amongst all the aryans and white supremacists? ”) - maybe they’ve all seen the light, and we’re in for an outbreak of conversion. Hallelujah.

[ToraToraTora]

talking of liberal fascism ^^^^^

[naomi24]

PP, //outbreak of free speech amongst all the aryans and white supremacists? //

Since when was Salman Rushdie an Aryan or a white supremacist ... unless you're insulting ABers again?

[naomi24]

It’s a strange anomaly that the so-called liberals are the most illiberal of all. Their way or no way.

[naomi24]

Who are you talking to Allen?

[Peter Pedant]

since when
er
how long - how long has Salman R been a fascist etc

Naomi I would never insult ABers because I know they wd run to a moderator and try to limit my freedom of speech - as they have done so many times before ;)

[Peter Pedant]

// It’s a strange anomaly that the so-called liberals are the most illiberal of all. Their way or no way.//

how true
how true
never a truer word

[naomi24]

By referring to ABers as aryans and white supremacists, which you do constantly, you are insulting them. Grow up PP.