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Cargando... The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution (2023 original; edición 2023)por Greg Lukianoff (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution por Greg Lukianoff (2023)
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Working under the aegis of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Lukianoff and Schlott describe a phenomenon that has become commonplace, especially in public schools and on college campuses: Say something with which someone disagrees, and not only won’t you be able to say it, but you’ll be punished for having a divergent opinion. The phenomenon is real, the authors assert, although many ascribe it to being corrected for being wrong and being aggrieved by the correction in the bargain. A reasonable case for attempting to bridge disagreements in a civil manner rather than via civil war.  We’re in a terrible spot, and everybody knows it. Americans on the right and left detest each other, excoriate each other and, with every flaring of rage, move further from any sense of pluralistic common cause. Citizens have lost confidence in officialdom. Fashionable ideologies that brook no good-faith dissent have surged into every corner of life. Make a minor demurral, even a joke, and you risk being subjected to the ghastly nullification rituals of what is called cancel culture.
"A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind. Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects. From the team that brought you the bestselling Coddling of the American Mind comes hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new examples showing the left and the right both working to silence their enemies. The Canceling of the American Mind will change how you view cancel culture. Rather than a moral panic, we should consider it a dysfunctional part of how Americans battle for power, status, and dominance. Cancel culture is just one symptom of a much larger problem: the use of cheap rhetorical tactics to "win" arguments without actually winning arguments. After all, why bother refuting your opponents when you can just take away their platform or career? The good news is that we can beat back this threat to democracy through better citizenship. The Canceling of the American Mind offers concrete steps toward reclaiming a free speech culture, with materials specifically tailored for parents, teachers, business leaders, and everyone who uses social media. We can all show intellectual humility and promote the essential American principles of individuality, resilience, and open mindedness"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Why do our young people behave like this? Nowadays, it seems everyone is a Nazi. Talk about your black & white thinking. Every speaker with any non-liberal affiliation has to be shouted down as if he were Hitler himself. I mean, if Hitler were invited to participate in a talk on your campus, would you protest in a respectful manner? Or would you shout, "My god, people this is HITLER!" That's where we are. Since everyone is Hitler, there's no responsible action to take other than screaming, disrupting, or preventing the event from ever taking place in the first place.
Here near my own home turf, at UVM, this year, the planned commencement speaker was canceled (literally). US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield, protested for her vote against a Gaza cease-fire, was called by activists a "genocidal" "war criminal."
She's not a genocidal war criminal. She voted against a cease-fire in a complicated war. She's not Hitler.
So it's all come to this. Sometimes I think about the sweep of generations, each of us more self-centered and 'coddled' than the previous, and feel the inevitability of it all. (