Cancel Culture Tag

Georgetown Law Student Protesters Demand Ilya Shapiro Firing, Reparations, Place To Cry, End To “Originalist” Center

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2022 81 Comments

There seems to be a pre-existing unhappiness at Georgetown Law that erupted with Shapiro's tweets the spark. "One student floated the idea of defunding the Center for the Constitution...

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FIRE Survey Finds Most People See Cancel Culture as a Threat to Democracy and Freedom

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 01, 2022 14 Comments

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has released a new survey that finds that most people see Cancel Culture as a real threat to democracy and freedom. The only people likely to be surprised by this are progressives who insist that Cancel Culture doesn't exist.

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Profile In Cowardice: Georgetown Law Dean Bill Treanor Suspends Conservative Legal Scholar Ilya Shapiro

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2022 49 Comments

"Georgetown’s embarrassing capitulation [to the "online outrage"] is antithetical to the tenets of liberal education...

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UIC Law Prof. Jason Kilborn Sues After University Tried To Force Him Into Humiliating Racial Reeducation Program

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2022 14 Comments

Used letters "N" and "B" on exam hypo about employment discrimination, leading to campaign to fire him. The FIRE notes: "In a stunning display of unintended irony, the individualized training materials [UIC tried to force on Kilborn] include the same redacted slur that Kilborn used in his test question." ...

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Survey: Young People Embrace Cancel Culture To Advance Social Justice Even When They Are The Victims

Posted by Stacey Matthews on January 27, 2022 32 Comments

According to the report, "by a 48–27 margin, respondents under 30 agree that 'My fear of losing my job or reputation due to something I said or posted online is a justified price to pay to protect historically disadvantaged groups.'"...

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Conservative Talk Host Dan Bongino Permanently Banned by YouTube

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 27, 2022 34 Comments

Conservative commentator Dan Bongino has been permanently banned by the video-sharing social media site YouTube for allegedly spreading 'misinformation' about COVID-19. I do not believe this was why he was banned and neither should you.

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Arizona State University Cancels Fundraising Event Featuring Two Republican Congressmen

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 27, 2022 2 Comments

“It is becoming clear that woke cancel culture has taken over every office at the University”...

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Seattle School District Removes To Kill a Mockingbird From Required Reading List

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 26, 2022 30 Comments

It sounds like teachers don't know how to do their job so it's easier to remove a book than discuss the themes and teach your students how to critically think....

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Cancel Culture Win: U. North Texas Prof. Timothy Jackson’s Free Speech And Defamation Case Can Move Forward, Court Rules

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2022 9 Comments

Prof. Jackson was swept up in the cancel culture mania that swept academia in the summer of 2020, as BLM riots swept cities. He wasn't fired, but sues alleging his free speech rights were violated and he was defamed....

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New York City Removes Theodore Roosevelt Statue From Museum of Natural History

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 20, 2022 34 Comments

This fall, the city of New York decided they were going to remove the statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the front of the Museum of Natural History and send it off to North Dakota. Well, they finally did it.

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Western Washington University’s Viking Mascot is Targeted for Cancellation

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 16, 2022 8 Comments

"the Task Force found names idolizing conquest as out of line with the university’s contemporary values around honoring local Indigenous communities"...

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Emory Law Journal Refuses To Publish Scholarly Article Challenging “Systemic Racism”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2022 45 Comments

"We take issue with your conversation on systemic racism, finding your words hurtful and unnecessarily divisive," wrote the Editors of Emory Law Journal to U. San Diego Law Professor Lawrence Alexander....

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Teammates of UPenn Trans Swimmer Considered Boycotting Final Meet but Feared Backlash

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 30, 2021 11 Comments

"Knowing they do not have backing from the school or NCAA, they’re reluctant to jeopardize their opportunity to make the elite Ivy League squad"...

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Eastern Illinois University Looking to Rename Dorm Named for Lincoln Debate Opponent Stephen Douglas

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 28, 2021 9 Comments

"as a reflection of EIU’s commitment to diversity, inclusivity, and empowerment"...

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The Cruel and Unusual Punishment Of Prof. Jason Kilborn by U. Illinois-Chicago John Marshall Law School

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2021 67 Comments

UIC has imposed a reeducation and supervision program to publicly humiliate and demean a professor that would make the Maoist Red Guards blush. It is psychologically torturing a professor just because it thinks it can....

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Elementary School Bans Jingle Bells As Having “The Potential To Be Controversial Or Offensive”

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 24, 2021 11 Comments

"I am actually quite shocked the school would remove the song from the repertoire."...

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Alex Berenson Sues Twitter For Purging Him From The Platform

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2021 33 Comments

Complaint: "the company broke its promises, its stated policies, and our laws, including a nearly 150-year-old California law that explicitly sets out its obligations as a company in the business of carrying messages"...

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Freeing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2021 73 Comments

Abigail Schrier - "what’s it like to be the target of so much hate? It’s freeing."...

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