Tag: cancel culture

The Right to Intimidate – The Atlantic

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Yesterday, the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT were caught in a trap in front of a House committee. Each was asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated rules at their university. Each president refused to answer directly, insisting that everything depends on context.

So here’s the context: On university campuses and in many other places, anti-Semitic speech regularly crosses the line into threats, intimidation, and outright violence against Jews. University rules and

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Who’re they fooling? 12 celebrity apologies in 2023 that may have been generated by AI, according to study that looked at public statement from Joe Rogan, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher and Elon Musk

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Celebrities are often ‘forced’ to make public apologies when their words and actions fall flat among fans, which are typically drawn up by frantic public relations teams. 

But some A-listers appear to be using a new technique to issue generic and safe ways to say sorry – artificial intelligence.

‘ for her viral tantrum on TikTok, was also included in the study, topping the list with a 72 percent chance that her apology was AI-generated.

The Hollywood couple came under

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There May Be a Blunt-Force Fix for Inflation

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This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.

Question of the Week

Pick your poison: high inflation or a recession. Which would you prefer and why?

Send responses to [email protected] or reply to this email.

Conversations of Note

What if the Fed raised interest rates by 2 percentage

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Spotify deletes 113 Joe Rogan episodes as purge continues after host apologized for use of N-word

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Spotify has taken down 113 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast from its platform as of Saturday night, after Rogan issued an apology for having used racial slurs on his platform in the past.  

JRE Missing, a website that automatically detects deleted episodes of Rogan’s podcast, has been tracking the changes. 

Most of the pulled episodes were recorded before his recent COVID-19 controversy and involved far-right commentators – or outright conspiracy theorists – including Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Owen

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Twitter critics take aim at Christmas movies classic, calling them sexist

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Little beats cosying up to a festive movie with our loved ones in the run up to Christmas, be it a comedy or a classic romcom. 

But criticism has been mounting over staples like Richard Curtis’ Love Actually, The Holiday and It’s a Wonderful Live, with women’s lifestyle site Refinery29 taking festive films apart and lambasting the ‘toxic’ male characters. 

Meanwhile social media users have been ripping into some of the country’s most beloved movies, including Bridget Jones’s Diary, starring

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Jonathan Rauch on America’s Competing Totalistic Ideologies

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America is in the grips of an epistemic crisis—an assault on reality, a rising inability to distinguish fact from fiction, an effort to shut down free inquiry—that poses an existential threat to liberal democracy. Which is why Jonathan Rauch’s new book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, is so timely and so essential. It helps us understand this moment better than anything else I’ve read and offers insights into what can be done to strengthen what Rauch

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