{"id":10052,"date":"2020-07-08T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2020-07-08T18:12:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:12:25","slug":"cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10052","title":{"rendered":"Cancel culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am with Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, David Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Michael Ignatieff, Garry Kasparov, J.K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie and Fareed Zakaria (just a few of the names that I readily recognize) on <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate\/\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10053\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cancelculture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cancel culture&#8221; is wrong. Seeking to find offense where no offense was intended is stupid. It fosters conflict, not understanding. It divides, it doesn&#8217;t unite us.<\/p>\n<p>In short, &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; is not what intelligent people do. It is what mobs do.<\/p>\n<p>And a mob, even when it acts in the name of the highest of ideals, is still a mob.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, cancel culture does exactly that: It <em>cancels culture<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The very culture that is our best defense against division. Against prejudice. Against populism.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10052' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am with Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, David Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Michael Ignatieff, Garry Kasparov, J.K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie and Fareed Zakaria (just a few of the names that I readily recognize) on this one. &#8220;Cancel culture&#8221; is wrong. Seeking to find offense where no offense was intended is stupid. It fosters conflict, not understanding. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10052' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-40-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10054,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions\/10054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}