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Jews and Cancel Culture

JL;DR SUMMARY The essays in the Sapir journal issue argue that Jews should be particularly concerned about the impact of cancel culture on liberal democracy and Jewish values. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Self CensorshipJewish ValuesLiberal DemocracyJewish TeachingsCancel CultureSapir JournalSocial PressureDemocratic PrinciplesFree ThoughtIntellectual Climate

Places mentioned

Chicago, Illinois, United States
"Olivia Eve Gross, a third-year student at the University of Chicago who is publishing her debut essay in this issue, thinks twice before raising her hand in class."
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
"David Bucci was a 50-year-old professor at Dartmouth and a married father of three when he became entangled in allegations."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"David Sabatini, a renowned cancer biologist, was pushed out of his job at MIT."
New York City, New York, United States
"friends of his who thought the charges against him were nonsense sought to bring him to New York University."
Czechia
"Past observers of tyrannical societiesVclav Havel comes to mindwould be familiar with the system: Ordinary people pay obeisance to political slogans in which they dont particularly believe just to be left alone."

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