A Trial by Media Ended Caylan Fords Career in 4 Hours
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Caylan Ford is a documentary filmmaker, charter school founder, and a former political candidate. She holds a Bachelor\\u2019s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history from the University of Calgary, a Master\\u2019s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and a Master\\u2019s in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.
She spent many years in the international human rights field, including by increasing access to anti-surveillance and censorship tools in Iran, China, and Myanmar; working with civil rights lawyers representing political dissidents; supporting refugee and asylum claimants; and conducting and publishing original research on the repression of religious minorities in China.
She has written and co-produced two feature documentary films on the themes of religious and political persecution, censorship, forced labor, scapegoating, and mass persuasion under totalitarian regimes.
Her new documentary film, When the Mob Came, focuses on her experience of cancel culture following a catastrophic bid for political office.
Shermer and Ford discuss: \\u2022 education reform \\u2022 public vs. private vs. charter schools \\u2022 the blank slate \\u2022 Thomas Sowell\\u2019s Constrained Vision vs. Unconstrained Vision \\u2022 French Revolution vs. American Revolution \\u2022 truth, justice, and reality \\u2022 what promotes humanity and what degrades it \\u2022 transhumanism \\u2022 political correctness \\u2022 identity politics \\u2022 cancel culture \\u2022 totalitarianism \\u2022 preference falsification \\u2022 free speech \\u2022 hate speech \\u2022 how to stand up to cancel culture.
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