Frequent heated exchanges marked Wednesday’s third and final online Free Speech Week event at UW-Stout but the two speakers often seemed to be speaking past each other in the discussion of “cancel culture.”
J. C. Hallman and James “Duke” Pesta had strongly contrasting views on the impact and the legitimacy of cancel culture but never quite agreed on exactly what the term means or on its effects.
Earlier programs this week were a Monday discussion of arguments for and against banning hate speech; and a Tuesday program on free speech and academic freedom.
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