Canceled for writing about cancel culture? And why we are willing to ‘Drive this bus into a wall.'

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Greg Lukianoff
Mar 9, 2024

 

• My “Canceling of the American Mind” co-author

  Rikki Schlott
  was just canceled from SXSW: I was canceled by trendy South by Southwest film festival bosses … for criticizing cancel culture

It appears that I’ve been canceled … for speaking up about cancel culture.

Organizers of the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival declined to approve my participation in a panel of speakers.

The reason? Concern that I’d dared to speak out against cancel culture.

An email from SXSW staff, shared with me by the panel’s organizer, reveals the festival was “hesitant to approve” my participation because my commentary has been “focused on the idea of cancel culture.”

Oh, the irony!

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‘Canceling of the American Mind’ in the News!

• Rikki and I spoke at the Cornell Free Speech Alliance on Tuesday night, and I got to rant a bit about free speech, academic freedom and elite higher ed as a mechanism for replicating class privilege:

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