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The University of Southern California has placed a professor on leave after he said a Chinese word that sounds similar to a racial slur in English while teaching a communications class, according to a report. Greg Patton, a professor at the university’s Marshall School of Business, was giving a lecture about the use of “filler …
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Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson doesn’t think he can be canceled. The rapper and television producer, whose newest project, “Power Book II: Ghost” premieres on Starz Sept. 6, said during Variety‘s Entertainment Marketing Summit presented by Deloitte that he doesn’t care whether people love him or hate him — as long as they care. “I’m an entertainer, …
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Racism and anti-Semitism were second nature to him, and yet the cancel culture gives him a free pass every time. In a cancel culture targeting everyone from Confederate to Union generals, Columbus to Winston Churchill, Francis Scott Key to even Abraham Lincoln and all of Mt. Rushmore, and where the racial statements and attitudes of …
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In recent years, it’s become all too common to see celebrities getting caught up in the mire of cancel culture—and totally uncommon to see them open a window into that experience. Yet this is exactly what Kevin Hart did with “Kevin Hart: Don’t F**k This Up,” a Netflix reality series, which earned the entertainer his …
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Sports, movies, and schools go woke. And broke? Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit. Historians such as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee cited social cannibalism to explain why once-successful states, institutions, and cultures simply died off. Their common explanation was that the arrogance of success ensures …
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While conservatives might delight as the left devours its own, they must take seriously the assault on America’s foundations. The very ‘American idea’ is at stake. Leftists are chipping away at America’s ideals and exacerbating the same polarization for which they blame conservatives. They are undermining the nation’s shared history and its commitment to civil …
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The war over free expression isn’t over, but the cancel consensus is starting to flop as the facade of viewpoint diversity in elite institutions begins to fade. Steven Pinker, the mild-mannered Harvard linguist, is the latest target of the online leftist mob. Known for advancing evolutionary psychology, the computational theory of mind, and more recently, …
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Drag queen icon Lady Bunny will bring her gallows humor to Jersey on Sunday. The “Wigstock” creator will perform her show, “Pig In a Wig At The Drive-In” at Westfield State Plaza. “There will be lots of corona jokes – lots of ‘Drag Race’ jokes… There’s something called gallows humor, when you’re about to step …
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British star Idris Elba advocated that racism in film and TV shows should be no different from sexism, with a rating system to warn viewers of racist viewpoints. “That’s why we have a rating system: We tell you that this particular content is rated U, PG, 15, 18,” said Elba to the Radio Times. “To …
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The Washington Redskins football announced it will retire its name on Monday, following a review begun after corporate pressure. Dan Snyder, the team’s owner, has previously insisted that the name would never change. A 2016 poll by the Washington Post found that nine in ten Native Americans were not offended by the name, although some consider …
The University of Southern California has placed a professor on leave after he said a Chinese word that sounds similar to a racial slur in English while teaching a communications class, according to a report. Greg Patton, a professor at the university’s Marshall School of Business, was giving a lecture about the use of “filler …
