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Nick Cave slams cancel culture as ‘bad religion run amuck’ – Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian musician said a refusal to engage with uncomfortable ideas has “an asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society”.
Cancel culture’s “refusal to engage with uncomfortable ideas”, according to Cave, hampers the creativeness and diversity of society. He wrote that mercy “allows us the ability to engage openly in free-ranging conversation” and acts as a “safety net of mutual consideration”. Without it “a society loses its soul, and devours itself”.
“Tolerance allows the spirit of enquiry the confidence to roam freely, to make mistakes, to self-correct, to be bold, to dare to doubt and in the process to chance u…
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