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Cancelation Keeps Us on Our Toes—Where We Belong

Cancelation Keeps Us on Our Toes—Where We Belong

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Virginia Heffernan
Jun 18, 2021
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The following is a lightly edited transcript of remarks from a Newsweek podcast debate on cancel culture. You can listen to the podcast here.

I'm going to push in the direction of the linguistic philosophy that I want to bring to the conversation—so from the beginning, get the edge on definition. I'm with Ludwig Wittgenstein, who thought we don't need to…

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