OPINION: Of all the over-bitten moral chew toys on society’s front lawn right now, the slobbery bone of cancel culture contention is my least favourite. It feels like every week there’s another “cancel culture” flare up, when everyone you know seizes the bone and runs around barking furiously. (Last week it was over whether AUT was right to cancel a public talk on feminism, advocacy and free speech. RICKY WILSON/Stuff “Last week it’s was over whether AUT was right to cancel a public talk on feminism, advocacy and free speech. Yet I also think that, to paraphrase Roxanne Gaye, “cancel culture” is a clumsy tool.

Source: Stuff May 03, 2022 03:59 UTC