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@AllenGuled [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #TodayonBICStreams
September 20 | Monday | 6:30 pm
Is Cancel Culture Real?
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#BICStreams #conversations #cancelculture #callout #woke #millenialvibes [URL redacted]
#OrgINBangaloreInternationalCentreBIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3EqSgW5ZNU
#IRLPresenterOprahWinfrey
Context https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/is-cancel-culture-real/ #2021_ #IRLAuthorJKRowling #IRLAuthorPhilipPullman [Wikipedia] #IRLWriterChimamandaNgoziAdichie [Wikipedia]
Context #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianCharlotteEdwardes "'If one is writing honestly about women's lives, it seems self-evident that we have to talk about these issues in a very open way, because they affect everything. They affect how well a woman does. They affect your emotional wellbeing. They get in the way of your dreams. If you're a woman whose dream is to have a family, for example, fibroids can get in the way.' She laughs that she is not trying to raise awareness in an NHS public service announcement sort of way, but because 'I was trying to write about women's lives in a way that feels truthful and wholesome and full for me'. In a different way, arguments that raged around identity and women's biology put Adichie in the headlines in 2017. In an interview with Channel 4 News to highlight the treatment of women, she was asked whether a transgender woman was 'any less of a real woman'. She replied, 'a trans woman is a trans woman'. She went on: 'I think the whole problem of gender in the world is about our experiences. It's not about how we wear our hair or whether we have a vagina or a penis. It's about the way the world treats us, and I think if you've lived in the world as a man with the privileges that the world accords to men and then sort of change gender, it's difficult for me to accept that then we can equate your experience with the experience of a woman who has lived from the beginning as a woman and who has not been accorded those privileges that men are.' In the consequent backlash, Adichie wrote a blogpost expressing horror at the accusations of transphobia and reiterating her support for trans rights. But her desire for openness and frank debate (including with Zoe Williams of this paper, who interviewed her after her Reith Lecture on freedom of speech in 2022) put her at odds with those whose bottom line is: no debate. There is no doubt her career was damaged. Interviews, prizes and talks were cancelled. And she cancelled interviews, too - those that suggested she might want to take the opportunity to apologise. It seemed for a while as if there were only two headlines available: 'Chimamanda apologises' or 'Chimamanda refuses to apologise'. 'It's a cannibalistic ethos,' she told her friend the writer Dave Eggers about sections of the progressive left at the time. 'It swiftly, gleefully, brutally eats its own. There is such a quick assumption of ill will and an increasing sanctimony and humourlessness that can often seem inhumane.'" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/15/cancel-culture-we-should-stop-it-end-of-story-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-backlash-writers-block-and-her-two-new-babies #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #OtheringHateTransphobia #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianZoeWilliams #IRLWriterDaveEggers #TauntSelfRighteousnessSanctimoniousness
Context https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/is-cancel-culture-real/ #2021_ #IRLAuthorJKRowling #IRLAuthorPhilipPullman [Wikipedia] #IRLWriterChimamandaNgoziAdichie [Wikipedia]
Context #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianCharlotteEdwardes "'If one is writing honestly about women's lives, it seems self-evident that we have to talk about these issues in a very open way, because they affect everything. They affect how well a woman does. They affect your emotional wellbeing. They get in the way of your dreams. If you're a woman whose dream is to have a family, for example, fibroids can get in the way.' She laughs that she is not trying to raise awareness in an NHS public service announcement sort of way, but because 'I was trying to write about women's lives in a way that feels truthful and wholesome and full for me'. In a different way, arguments that raged around identity and women's biology put Adichie in the headlines in 2017. In an interview with Channel 4 News to highlight the treatment of women, she was asked whether a transgender woman was 'any less of a real woman'. She replied, 'a trans woman is a trans woman'. She went on: 'I think the whole problem of gender in the world is about our experiences. It's not about how we wear our hair or whether we have a vagina or a penis. It's about the way the world treats us, and I think if you've lived in the world as a man with the privileges that the world accords to men and then sort of change gender, it's difficult for me to accept that then we can equate your experience with the experience of a woman who has lived from the beginning as a woman and who has not been accorded those privileges that men are.' In the consequent backlash, Adichie wrote a blogpost expressing horror at the accusations of transphobia and reiterating her support for trans rights. But her desire for openness and frank debate (including with Zoe Williams of this paper, who interviewed her after her Reith Lecture on freedom of speech in 2022) put her at odds with those whose bottom line is: no debate. There is no doubt her career was damaged. Interviews, prizes and talks were cancelled. And she cancelled interviews, too - those that suggested she might want to take the opportunity to apologise. It seemed for a while as if there were only two headlines available: 'Chimamanda apologises' or 'Chimamanda refuses to apologise'. 'It's a cannibalistic ethos,' she told her friend the writer Dave Eggers about sections of the progressive left at the time. 'It swiftly, gleefully, brutally eats its own. There is such a quick assumption of ill will and an increasing sanctimony and humourlessness that can often seem inhumane.'" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/15/cancel-culture-we-should-stop-it-end-of-story-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-backlash-writers-block-and-her-two-new-babies #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #OtheringHateTransphobia #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianZoeWilliams #IRLWriterDaveEggers #TauntSelfRighteousnessSanctimoniousness
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@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: Please reproach your MPs for the tacit acceptance of the #woke #cancelling culture of #leftwaffe #Fascism. My example (sent to @jamesowild MP) shown with the attachments I added. Retweet virally, God Save the Queen @KensingtonRoyal @RoyalFamily [URL redacted]
"The publishing purges
Kate Clanchy has been forced to rewrite her Orwell Prize-winning book, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, on the grounds that it features 'racial tropes', e.g. describing a child of colour as having 'almond eyes'. After a social media storm, she apologised and said she was 'grateful' to those who'd attacked her for showing her the error of her ways. The publisher has also apologised for 'the hurt we have caused' and thanked the book's critics. The Orwell Foundation has said it acknowledges the 'concerns and hurt expressed' about the book, which it lauded just a year ago. Anthony Brett tells the full story of the 'ugliest cancellation in recent history' in the Telegraph - and it seems to be metastasizing. Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, has been condemned by the Society of Authors, of which he is President, after he came to Clanchy's defence and compared her critics to members of the Taliban. The Society has issued a statement telling its members 'to be mindful of their privilege'. Our General Secretary, Toby Young, was interviewed about the controversy for talkRADIO.
Sarah Ditum has written an article for the Times about the battle between ideological purity and literature and concluded that purity is winning. Tom Slater says in the Spectator that what has happened to Clanchy is 'faintly Stalinist, with a grovelling apology following the howling denunciation'.
Meanwhile, Mills & Boon has asked its authors to write novels with more socially progressive heroes, says FSU Advisory Council member Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, while Ben Lawrence makes a plea in the Telegraph to keep the cancel culture mob away from musicals."
#AdvocacyUKFreeSpeechUnionFSUBenjaminJones
https://freespeechunion.org/weekly-news-round-up-25/
#IRLAuthorKateClanchy
#2019_SomeKidsITaughtAndWhatTheyTaughtMe
#OtheringStereotypeCulturalEthnic
#OrgUKTheOrwellFoundation [Wikipedia]
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAnthonyBrett
#IRLAuthorPhilipPullman [Wikipedia]
#ConditionCancerMetastatic [Wikipedia]
#OrgUKSocietyOfAuthorsSoA https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/11/society-of-authors-philip-pullman-tweets-kate-clanchy
#MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray
#NMUKGBNews
#OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage
#NMUKGBNewsAndrewNeil
#OrgAFTaliban
#BrandNewsCorpUKTalkKevinOSullivan
#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesSarahDitum [Wikipedia]
#MagazineAUTheSpectatorTomSlater
#IRLDictatorJosephStalin
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisonPearson
#BrandMillsAndBoon
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphBenLawrence
"Dear Mr Wild,
We depend on Parliament as the instrument by which our democracy is defended, yet by silence you and other MPS show tacit acceptance of the Woke 'culture' which has seen authors rewrite and publishers reprint books, charities 'reappraise' statues and artwork. You allow ongoing illegal immigration risking everything from new COVID19 variants to Marburg disease and ebola, ISIS infiltration and child-rape grooming gangs. In short you are as effete as any Roman senators during their decline.
Vernon Moyse"
#IRLAuthorVernonMoyse [digital archives]
#TauntWokeCulture
#PhenomnImmigrationRefugee
#ConditionVirusCOVID19
#ConditionVirusMarburgMARV [Wikipedia]
#ConditionDiseaseEbola [Government]
#OrgSyndicateTerrorismISISDaeshISIL
#PowerControlViolationRape /
#PowerControlViolationPaedophilia
#ConspiracyTheory_CabalGroomingGang
#CharacterisationWeaknessEffete https://thesaurus.plus/related/effeminate/effete
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@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: #woke #cancelling #Leftwaffe #Fascists bring us to within an ace of #NAZI book-burning, paused as author & publisher cowards rollover rewrite/reprint? FUCK 'EM ALL! Join @FreeSpeechUnion! @PhilipPullman @ACLU @DouglasKMurray @GBNEWS @Nigel_Farage @Lit_Review @afneil @nytimesarts [URL redacted]
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