“Cancel Culture” – Page 44

Julie Burchill’s book about cancel culture cancelled over Twitter row

The publisher of a book about cancel culture by Julie Burchill has cancelled it after the writer was accused of Islamophobia on Twitter.

The book, Welcome to the Woke Trials, had been due to be published by Little, Brown in April.

But Burchill got embroiled with a row with fellow writer Ash Sarkar.

Little, Brown said her comments were “not defensible from a moral or intellectual standpoint” and “crossed a line with regard to race and religion”.

A statement from the company said: “We will no longer be publishing Julie Burchill’s book. This is not a decision we have taken lightly.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•"Cancel Culture", "Islamophobia", WTF?

Vancouver Canucks Face Criticism for ‘Culturally Appropriated‘ Orca Logo

…Sean Carleton, a University of Manitoba history professor, posted a long thread Tuesday on Twitter explaining that since the Orca on the Canuck’s team logo looks similar to the art style of the Coast Salish, a group of languages and people indigenous to British Columbia, that the logo is “racist and appropriated” and must be “retired.”

It’s too often an asshole white person behind this crap.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•"Cancel Culture", "Cultural Appropriation"

Cancel Mob Attacks U Chicago Geophysicist Dorian Abbot For Questioning Diversity Hiring Dogma

“Cancel culture” is a plague that has infected academia and campuses for a long time, and has moved from campus to the general culture. But it has been particularly prominent in the news in 2020 over issues of racial politics, particularly the Black Lives Matter Movement and Critical Race Theory (sometimes called “antiracist”) indoctrination.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2020November 30, 2020•0•"Cancel Culture"

The Age of Cant: These days, you must hold the right opinions and express none of the wrong ones—or else.

…Cant is more destructive than hypocrisy because it is harder to expose and because a humbug deceives himself as well as others, while a mere hypocrite retains some awareness; he is a rogue rather than a villain. Cant is the vehement public expression of concern for others, or of anger at an opinion casting doubt on some moral orthodoxy that is not, and cannot be, genuinely felt, its vehemence being a shield for insincerity and lack of confidence in the orthodox opinion. Doctor Johnson defined cant as “a whining pretension to goodness, in formal and affected terms.” Cant is contagious, and, when widespread, it creates an atmosphere in which people are afraid to call it by its name. Arguments then go by default; and if arguments go by default, ludicrous, bad, or even wicked policies result.

by Blazingcatfur•November 28, 2020November 28, 2020•0•"Cancel Culture", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

Rex Murphy: A pathetic display by an anti-Jordan Peterson woke mob

Axiom 1. The purpose of an enterprise is not to assuage or submit to the immature predispositions of its most self-centred and querulous employees.

Rule 1. Any employees at a publishing house who break down in tears when they hear a certain book is to be published should be kept far, far away from the author’s promotional tour. [Penguin Random House – take note.]

by Blazingcatfur•November 26, 2020November 26, 2020•0•"Cancel Culture"

Pitiful: Staff at Jordan Peterson’s publisher protest new book plans

The announcement of a new book from Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, the self-styled “professor against political correctness”, has prompted dozens of complaints from staff at his publisher in Canada, according to a report.

Vice’s story on Tuesday said that the announcement of Peterson’s forthcoming Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, a follow-up to his global bestseller 12 Rules for Life, prompted “several” staff at Penguin Random House Canada (PRH Canada) to confront management…

Peterson’s daughter Mikhaila tweeted a link to the Vice article. “How to improve business in 2 steps: Step 1: identify crying adults. Step 2: fire,” she wrote. “If you don’t think adults willing to cry to get their way in a workplace is a problem … you’re clearly not in charge of many people.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•"Cancel Culture"