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I've been cancelled for standing up to racial identity politics
Cuthbert, Alka Sehgal http://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/22/ive-been-cancelled-for-standing-up-to-racial-identity-politics/
Publisher: Spiked
Date Written: 22/09/2023
Year Published: 2023
Resource Type: Article
An education conference has disinvited me because my presence would make speakers feel 'unsafe'.
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Mannion then returned to a faux-psychological argument. Rethinking Education, Mannion assured me, is dedicated to freedom of speech, but 'psychological safety' is a precondition for free debate. This is not true. 'Psychological safety' may be helpful in a therapy session, but free debate is not possible in a climate where people feel they have a right not to be offended.
Seeking to cancel people who hold views with which you disagree, as the seven complainants have done successfully, is authoritarian. Unwilling or unable to put their case in public, they used spurious claims of distress to get their way. Sadly, too many in the education sector lack the moral will to challenge the cancellers.
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