can call cancel culture today and what many people do call cancel culture, which is this idea that there were certainul things that may be true but may even have very intense explanatory value that you re not supposed to discuss in polite society. the problem here is that if you can t discuss the possible explanations for things, the very likely explanations for things in some cases, you end up having a nonproductive f conversation with things that aren t very relevant. sexism comes tovi mind in many conversations, ending up being labeled the total cause of everything we are seeing. so the first chapter of the book looks at the black lives matter movement. i openly say i m a black man ane a proud one, and academic, i have some sympathy towards the underlying goals of the movement with racial equality and so on but point out many of the things they say are objectively not s true it if you look at the claim that there is a very large number of murders, if you will, of african-american me