Category: cancel culture

Video: ‘They Don’t Control Me’—Vernon Jones on Confronting Cancel Culture and Leaving the Democratic Party

At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we sit down with former Georgia State Representative Vernon Jones, a lifelong Democrat who recently became a Republican and Trump supporter. We sit down to discuss his firsthand experiences with cancel culture, why he switched parties, and what he hopes to achieve with his new organization Waking Up…


eBay Pulling 6 Cancelled Dr. Seuss Books From Listings, Company Says

The online marketplace eBay has decided to pull six books authored by Dr. Seuss from its platform. An eBay spokesperson told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that they are reviewing all their listings to remove the books. “At eBay, we have a strict policy against hate and discrimination to ensure our platform remains a safe, trusted…


Academic Freedom ‘In Crisis’ and Cancel Culture Endemic in UK Universities: Report

Authoritarianism, political discrimination, and self-censorship are rife in British universities and have thrown academic freedom into a crisis of cancel culture, a landmark study revealed on Monday. The discrimination, mainly experienced by conservative academics, manifests as “hard authoritarianism,” and involves “no-platforming, dismissal campaigns, social media mob attacks, open letters … formal complaints, and disciplinary action,”…


Refusing to Print Dr. Seuss Books Has Nothing to Do With Combating Racism

Commentary From book burning, to book banning, to now refusing to print classic books, censorship is a divisive battle. Children’s literature is especially under attack. Instead of laughing at well-intentioned themes meant to engage young readers and instill a love of learning through reading, or updating illustrations to better suit modern sensitivities, woke culture has…


Video: Facts Matter (March 3): Georgia House Passes Election Reform Bill; Cancel Culture Runs Amok

The Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill that would reform a range of election rules, including those relating to absentee voting, voter ID, time limits for voting, and ballot drop boxes, among many others. Meanwhile, cancel culture has gotten tenacious here in America, with Dr. Suess books, the Harvard Business School Club, and Rudy…


University of Texas President, Donors Clash Over Iconic Fight Song

University of Texas (UT) at Austin administrators are at odds with a group of alumni, who are threatening to withhold donations if the school doesn’t show enough support of its historic fight song. In emails obtained by the Texas Tribune, hundreds of alumni and donors complained to UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell after then-Texas Longhorns quarterback…


Video: ‘They Want to Cancel God’—GOYA Foods Owner Robert Unanue

At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we sit down with the owner of GOYA Foods, Robert Unanue, to discuss cancel culture, the boycott and “buy-cott” of GOYA products, and what he sees as the assault on “God, family, and work.” American Thought Leaders is an Epoch Times show available on YouTube, Rumble, Youmaker, and The…


Dr. Seuss books Cancelled over ‘Hurtful and Wrong’ Imagery

Dr. Seuss has become the latest target of cancel culture after the company in charge of the Suess catalogue of books decided to pull six titles from publication due to offensive imagery. The move coincides with Dr. Seuss’s removal from “Read Across America Day,” which was observed on Tuesday. Dr. Seuss had previously been the…


Dr. Seuss Should Not Be Cancelled

Commentary A child’s imagination is a powerful thing. Childlike innocence and wonder can transform mundane scenes into extraordinary events. This is what it means to see things through the eyes of a child. No one understood this better than Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. His first children’s book, “And to Think That…


Is the US Becoming Less Free Than Russia?

Commentary Russia gets bad press, deservedly so. Corruption is rampant, journalists and other critics of President Vladimir Putin have met untimely ends, mass political protests are met with batons, the LGBTQ community suffers restrictions of a kind that ended decades ago in most Western countries, and religions seen as disloyal to the nation—a radical Muslim…