Interesting Uneard Article about Gretchen Felker-Martin - from across the pond

[ThatZanyFatball]

https://unherd.com/2025/10/the-lefts-ugly-free-speech-fetish/

Roxane Gay, a woman whom I once respected.

'...asked whether cancel culture existed in a 2021 interview, Gay replied robustly: “No, it does not. Cancel culture is this boogeyman that people have come up with to explain away bad behavior… I like to think of it as consequence culture, where when you make a mistake — and we all do, by the way — there should be consequences.”'

The intellectual collapse of the liberal Left allowed the Right to monopolise the cause of free speech, even if that position was rarely taken in good faith. One of Donald Trump’s first executive orders in this presidency was titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship”; at the same time, federal websites were being cleansed of oldspeak terms such as “antiracist”, “trauma” and “hate speech”. This government-directed linguistic purge is more disturbing by far than the “soft” repression of Left-wing cancel culture, but it violates the same principle.

This ^^ I can never forgive the Left for opening the door and inviting the Right / far right in to trash the house of democracy because of the Left’s increasing militancy and ridiculous policing of what was acceptable or not to say. Drunk on righteousness and purity power leaving us all dealing with the aftermath.

’What happens in Manhunt seems entirely plausible and yeah, maybe we should all sit with that for a minute or ten’

This is part of Roxanne Gay’s review of Manhunt on Goodreads. 😶