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A university boss has hit out at the government's plan to introduce fines for 'cancel culture' on campuses. Education Minister Michelle Donelan has said she intends to bring forward new laws to crack down on 'woke mobs' that are apparently preventing debate at universities.
Ms Donelan, in article published on Conservative Home, said 'increasingly, university is a place where you are told what to think rather than taught how to think'.
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She also hit out at reports of university “staff time going into putting "trigger warnings" on Harry Potter and 1984 or earnest working groups discussing whether to cancel historical figures such as Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Francis Drake or Sir William Gladstone”.
The minister said: "The intolerant woke mob have had their brief period in the sun, but it is now over. Universities, including their student unions, will face fines for engaging with or supporting cancel culture.
"Students, staff and speakers who have been de-platformed will have both a civil route and a legal route to justice – with a legal tort as a backstop to ensure that this legislation has teeth."
University of Salford Vice Chancellor Helen Marshall was sceptical of the plan, however.
Speaking to the Northern Agenda podcast, she said: "It's not a massive problem, I think the government needs to be a bit more realistic."
"It's not a space that I would support if I'm honest", she added.
But, Ms Marshall did support the principle of open debate at universities.
She said: "If someone is going to come and do a controversial speech, then that's leading to a debate on something controversial, which leads to a way forward.
"If we don't talk about it and we bury it
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Liam Gallagher has shared his thoughts on cancel culture, calling those who initiate the cancellation of a person “fucking squares”.Speaking in a new interview, the former Oasis frontman discussed call-out culture and how he doesn’t believe people can really be ‘cancelled’.“Who the fuck are these people cancelling you, anyway? Like, fuck off,” Gallagher told The 2 Johnnies Podcast. “Unless they come around to your house and say you’re cancelled. You’re still going to do your fucking thing, they don’t speak for everyone, do they?”He continued: “The cancelling people just speak for the cancelled world, they don’t fucking speak for everyone.
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Frank Langella is refuting "unacceptable behavior" allegations while working on the Netflix series "The Fall of the House of Usher," a show he was subsequently fired from following a sexual misconduct investigation in April. The 84-year-old actor, who starred as Roderick Usher on the streaming service series before his role was recast to Bruce Greenwood, also criticized "cancel culture" as he addressed the accusations for the first time in an op-ed published on Deadline. Fox News Digital has contacted Langella's representatives for additional comment. "I have been canceled.
HBO series Succession, appeared on TalkTV show Piers Morgan Uncensored when the conversation turned to ‘cancel culture’.“It’s a kind of modern day McCarthyism, really,” Cox said. “It’s a kind of raid on people’s sensibilities in order to reduce them and make them… I don’t know, there is so much hypocrisy involved with the whole thing.“I find the whole thing completely hypocritical. I am not religious but there is a thing in the bible where it says, ‘Let he or she without sin cast the first stone’ and there seems to be a lot of casting of stones.
celebrity cancel culture, which he analogized to a modern-day form of “McCarthyism.” The 75-year-old Laurence Olivier award winner dropped the bombshell during a Thursday appearance on Piers Morgan’s show “Uncensored” on TalkTV.“It is a kind of modern-day McCarthyism really,” Cox told the host of the so-called witch hunt, in which celebs are excommunicated from Hollywood for certain actions and opinions. “It is a kind of raid on people’s sensibilities in order to reduce them and make them… I don’t know, there is so much hypocrisy in the whole thing.”The thespian continued, “I am not religious but there is a thing in the bible where it says, ‘Let he or she without sin cast the first stone’ and there seems to be a lot of casting of stones. And it is like a virus.”Cox was in good company while discussing the negativity of cancel culture with Post columnist Piers Morgan, who recently vowed to wipe out the damning trend.“My mission statement for this show is simple: I’m canceling cancel culture,” Morgan told “Piers Morgan Uncensored” viewers in April.
part ways with Langella after an investigation into claims of “unacceptable behavior” on set, Langella penned an open letter Thursday on Deadline decrying his forced departure.“I have been canceled. Just like that,” the 84-year-old thespian began in a lengthy statement.“In the increasing madness that currently pervades our industry, I could not have imagined that the words collateral damage would fall upon my shoulders. They have brought with them a weight I had not expected to bear in the closing decades of my career.
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cancel Joe Rogan have apparently only had the opposite effect: The “Joe Rogan Experience” host claims that he’s amassed millions of Spotify subscribers amid ongoing uproar over past episodes, in which he’d featured alleged anti-vaxxer guests and dropped the “N-Bomb.”Rogan, 54, dropped the bombshell about his alleged influx of subscribers on Friday’s episode with British pundit commentator Douglas Murray.“You have been put through the wringer since we last met,” exclaimed Murray, referring to the “Fear Factor” host being in the social media skillet. “They did a number on you.