Protip for any grad student looking for a quick buck: there's money to be made by sending in generic articles to centrist publications along saying we shouldn't cancel Cicero, Boethius, Erasmus, Sir Thomas Browne, François Villon, William Thackeray, James Gould Cozzens etc.
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It’s meant as a defense against cancellations in general because they’re not quite willing to argue against the specific cancellations they oppose.
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the world is divided into good and evil instead of a dialectical analysis.
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"Defense against purely hypothetical cancellations?" Why don't they just write an Open Letter for that?
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Aristotelianism is an attempt to cancel Plato so just desserts if you ask me
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Plato had it coming
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"Should we cancel X?" reminds me of the "Will It Float?" Game on Letterman.
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In that vein, even the coining of the term "cancel culture" give the concept more credence than it deserves: when did boycotting things you didn't like become a "culture"?
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Jeet. Cancel culture is not a thing, bro. You can’t just sign a letter against a thing that does not exist and hope that signing the letter brings the thing into existence.
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@BenjySarlin Philosophers have a long history of objecting to arguments no one is making!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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