In recent months, there have been several instances of elite universities or their faculty members offering some kind of institutional pushback to a censorious progressivism. Prominent examples include Cornell’s refusal to create a trigger warning requirement demanded by the undergraduate student assembly, the formation of a Harvard faculty group defending academic freedom and Stanford’s official condemnation of the disruptions at a conservative judge’s law school talk.
the fact that outrage and lies are spread incredibly fast. the fact that journalists sense of what actually matters to people is being completely warped, cos they spend all day, every day in this chatroom forjournalists. don t you ever think if twitter s such a big problem, if it s doing such damage and corrosion, maybe you shouldn t feed it so much? well, again, it comes back to how you think i m feeding it. i could go through all my tweets in the last ten years, and i would simply ask people who think that i m constantly spewing terrible things, what is it that you think is so terrible? i don t actually have really offensive or wrong opinions. most of mine are what most people think. don t you think what you ve written about in your book wake up, cancel culture, what some people call the great awokening, mightjust be about to pass? if you look at the reaction, for instance, to this controversy about roald dahl. we re winning the war. if you look at what happened with roald dahl, wit
call the great awokening, mightjust be about to pass? if you look at the reaction, for instance, to this controversy about roald dahl. we re winning the war. if you look at what happened with roald dahl, with roald dahl, when some people are saying it should be edited so that you re allowed to say the word enormous but not allowed to say the word fat . ludicrous. but the reaction to that suggested to me that a lot of people, even on the left of politics, who you might have thought of as being part of the cancel culture, thought this is not a good use of time or brain cells. it s not that. it s actually because the woke worm has turned. the war against the wokery and by wokery i don t mean what woke originally was intended to mean, which was a raised awareness of social and racial injustice. i ve studied all the history, i ve put it all in my book, you know, and i made the point that i am woke by that distinction. but what it s become is a form of fascism. it s become a mind set of