Debate: Cancel Culture is Threatening Our Freedoms

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 6:24 p.m.

JK Rowling, Scarlett Johansson, Kanye West. All have been \u2018cancelled\u2019 \u2013 denounced on social media for doing or saying something considered wrong or offensive, often on matters to do with race or gender. In this week's episode Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Julie Bindel debated Billy Bragg and Kehinde Andrews on whether cancel culture is a mob mentality, or a long overdue way of speaking truth to power. The debate was chaired by Jonathan Freedland.\xa0\n\nSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.\n\nSee acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices