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Cancel culture panel cancelled by cancel culture
Last Saturday I participated as a panellist at the Disrupted Festival of Ideas. Organised by the State Library of Western Australia, I was on the panel for a discussion concerning the meaning of “Cancel Culture”.
The panel sought to address whether ‘cancel culture’ is just a term utilised to vilify militant leftists or a real thing and a threat to nuanced debate and the safe exchange of ideas. Besides myself, panellists included SLWA chief executive Margaret Allen, Murdoch University post-graduate research student Graeme Paton, and LGBTQI+ activist Kai Schweizer.
The reality is that honest debate is not being allowed. It is deeply ironic that a discussion about cancel culture has been…
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