The departure of Andy Mills on the same day was somewhat cloudier. “Caliphate,” a podcast Mills produced, had withstood an embarrassing blow in December when the Times officially announced the award-winning program had failed to meet the newspaper’s “standards for accuracy.
McNeil and Mills are not alone. Just today, actor Gina Carano was fired from The Mandalorian over a frowned upon Tweet, and it’s becoming hard to keep track of who is cancelling whom in the recent controversy over a Variety movie review of actor Carey Mulligan’s performance in Promising Young Woman.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
The circumstances of each of these incidents can be reasonably debated, and one need not come out on the same side every time, but the overwhelming trend of repressing free discussion is disturbing, and never more so than when exercised by an institution such as the New York Times, which is supposed to view free expression as its raison d’être.
As the maoist self-criticism and struggle-sessions continue to ramp up, the speed of the postmodern decline of the West increases.
It is heartening to see a newspaper print a column that defends freedom of speech and expression, and wonderful to have a columnist like Soupcoff who has the courage to write in defence of these fundamental freedoms.
God always forgives...but THE MORAL GUARDIANS OF THE UNIVERSE are unforgiving, relentless, and one track minded...there’s only One Way, Their Way or you are out, shamed, fired, scrubbed and vaporized from the public
Don't you get it yet? If you do not conform to the hive mentality the worker bees will destroy you. How are we supposed to celebrate diversity if we can't all think the same?
Business afraid her views would hurt the bottom line. The logic of the market, nothing more.
like the ontario judge who called U of T law school and complained about hiring of a professor because she had criticised Israel ? you guys were pretty quiet about that
Cancel culture is the last refuge of intellectual cowards and infantile snowflakes who wield imaginary fears and insecurities as a club to satisfy their need for control. Organizations that surrender to such intimidation are equally disingenuous and deserving of ignominy.
Why is it that all the people supporting this are ugly bastards? She wasn’t comparing herself to Jews in Nazi Germany, she was saying how divisive politics lead up to their persecution.
Only because of emasculated cowardly men…
If they can’t be or have it? No one will!
Maybe she, James Woods and Chachi can make a movie with Kevin Sorbo with Chuck Woolery producing. That crazy Seaver kid (Kirk Cameron) can direct.
Some SJW snowflake got triggered at Lucasfilm
She gets fired, but her Democrat co-star is still emlployed, even though he posted very similar things. The hypocricy continues...
It’s 👏🏽called👏🏽accountability!
The cheers and celebrations when Trump was silenced will become more and more muted as more and more are accused of incorrect speech
Everything that is against the left belief is racist, sexist, ist, ist ist. This is how you use the power of shame to kill the free speech.
Antisemitism is not cancel culture
Freedom of speech doesn't mean free of consequences. Every word is consequential.
The left loves strong independent women as long as they do as their told and don't have their own opinion, then they get cancelled.
CancelDisneyPlus
This is ignorant, delusional reporting. These decisions are almost always contract based.
I'm not sure about the New York Times, but Gina Carano equated herself to the Jewish in WWII.
I think her comments merited her firing. She cancelled herself. Freedom of speech isn't freedom of consequence.