Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Cancel Culture?
In the final part of this chapter that we're currently discussing, you kind of look at the cancelling of two high profile figures accused of sexual harassment. So that's james franco and louis cki. Could you explain why you chose to examine these two men and what their cases illustrate about the nature of cancel culture and its long term effects? Yes. Both of them experience cancelling in the wake of the meto movement, a, and the most prominent figure at the beginning of that ment was havy weinstein,. But i think for most people it wasn't nearly as terrible or disgusting as it was for certain other people like arcally a so ie.
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