[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Reading for Sunday March 27. 2022 - Cancel Culture

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today's Issues group meets at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in person in the
parlor of the Religious Education buildings next to the church and on Zoom
at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz0
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09>


This Sunday, March 27, 2022, we will continue our discussion of the ongoing
war in Ukraine.  This is a fast moving situation, participants will share
their insights from different sources.

Our second topic will be Cancel Culture and the Free Speech Problem in
America.  The suggested reading is America Has a Free Speech Problem by the
editorial board of the New York Times reporting on a survey they did of
opinion on the issue.  This article has an interactive feature where you
type in our own opinion.  To use this feature access The Article on The
Times Web Site
<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/cancel-culture-free-speech-poll.html>.
  If you don’t have a Times subscription, you can access The Article on Our
Site
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EWybczGceTBPIa03qVNyy0p6-XFJVLe_3eUqxtdmUds/edit?usp=sharing>
where I answered the items so the survey results would show.

In addition to this general overview, there are a number of specific
incidents we can examine.  Tom Cunningham suggested Too Close to Putin,
Institutions Vet Artists Uncomfortably
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y7jD_4Mt7yTpPijUP9XQ4RWaY9W-T-5lp5Hf4nm1GfM/edit?usp=sharing>
about Russian artists close to Putin being canceled.  He also suggested an
opinion piece by John McWhorter called Stay Woke. The Right Can Be
Illiberal, Too
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-xPpwpMSWZyH-gqEjsQSeCbINOwHMuu8xcQut8BHBI0/edit?usp=sharing>
.

For another perspective, I can recommend Surviving The Yale Mob: What A
Vicious Protest Says About Ivy Law
<https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5269> from
the Prophecy News Watch website.  If you are skeptical of the PNW site you
can read about the same event on the NY post site which also has some
video: Yale law students disrupt bipartisan free speech panel, trigger
police escort
<https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/yale-law-students-disrupt-bipartisan-free-speech-panel/>.
There is also coverage in Yale News: Controversy continues over YLS protest
and police presence
<https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/03/17/controversy-continues-over-yls-protest-and-police-presence/>,
which says The disagreement hinges on whether the protesters disrupted the
event in violation of the University's free speech policies.

Also of interest is the website Canceled People
<https://www.canceledpeople.com/cancelations> with a database of 217 cases.
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