Our t. V. Dot com and get a complete look at your news right now stay with us for an amazing programming. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im peter a little sri member the phrase to honest people can disagree this concept as essentially been the bedrock of western civilization enlightenment its also the origins of the american 1st amendment cancel culture is putting all this in question are we now ruled by the hecklers. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Brad Blankenship in prague he is a freelance journalist as well as a journalist for c. G. T. And and in bloomington we have mike a kernis he is a r. T. Calmness and a comic book writer all right gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was it was good and its going to bradford. You know it was a bit over the last few weeks watching this whole cancel culture phenomenon and i find it just completely ludicrous anti intellectual and a historical. Antir
Hello and welcome to crosstalk were all things are considered im peter a little cash remember the phrase to honest people can disagree this concept as essentially been the bedrock of western civilization since the enlightenment its also the origins of the american 1st amendment cancel culture is putting all this in question are we now ruled by the hecklers. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Brad Blankenship in prague he is a freelance journalist as well as a journalist. And in bloomington we have Michael Kernis he is a r. T. Columnist and a comic book writer all right gentlemen crossed up or is an affair. That means you can jump in anytime you want and i was it was good and its going to bradford. You know it will be over the last few weeks watching this whole cancel culture phenomenon and i find it is a completely ludicrous anti intellectual and a historical. Antirational ok im a trained historian and i history is full of tragedies that were supposed to learn from ok not w
A hit and let me bring in mike here i mean we have a history you know critically when we look at an american context of what you shouldnt say offensive language you know im going to load that but now its right language what you should say now that is very different from our cultural tradition here and there but if people are going over the line now basically its mind control you can say this but you cant say that before you shouldnt say certain things that would be obviously universally agreed to be of like. Well and thats thats generally where we sit these days i think that in a lot of ways there is this sort of massive amount of offensive ideas that are not allowed to be spoken there verboten a sense you know you youre not allowed to say certain words youre not allowed to say certain phrases someone so forth. That we didnt even consider controversial 1015 years ago if someone if a celebrity is to say well one good example would be terry crews was to say you know fatherlessness is an