Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture (7/13)

Dan Kovalik, Mickey Huff; CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture

The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture

Dan Kovalik and Mickey Huff will discuss Kovalik's new book, Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture, and answer audience questions.

In his new book longtime activist and labor lawyer Dan Kovalik argues that cancel culture is a danger to progressive movement building, entirely mean-spirited, and serves only the interests of the extremely powerful.

Getting people fired or socially ostracizing them because they ran afoul of the ever-changing language norms or made a simple mistake is a bad strategy. It hands more power to bosses and authority figures. 

While It may make the accusers feel good, it is destructive, Kovalik insists. His book argues for an end to cancel culture and a renewed focus on solidarity, compassion, and civility -- all of which are required to build the mass progressive movements we need more than ever.

Like many on the left, Kovalik has watched with concern as works of classic literature have been summarily cut from curricula, individuals have been traumatized and pilloried, jobs lost, reputations destroyed.

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DAN KOVALIK is the author of critically acclaimed The Plot to Scapegoat Russia, The Plot to Attack Iran, The Plot to Control the World, The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela, and No More War.  He has been a labor and human rights lawyer since 1993 and received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford Law School, written extensively for HuffPost and CounterPunch, and has lectured throughout the world.

MICKEY HUFF  is the current director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation, who has edited or co-edited ten annual volumes of Censored, and contributed numerous chapters. He is currently professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College, where he is also co-chair of the history department.  He is executive producer and co-host of the Project Censored Show, a weekly syndicated public affairs program aired over KPFA Radio and 50 community radio stations.

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