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𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐬: 𝐃𝐞𝐣𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐚́𝐬 𝐥𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐚 𝐢𝐳𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚 𝐦𝐚́𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚

Los más regalados n.º 3 en Ideologías políticas en Amazon España.

The Spanish edition of 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 is no 3 on the list of political ideology books picked up as a gift on Amazon España. Te quiero #blackfriday2023 !

@politybooks #edicionespaidos
#cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #CanceladosDejarAtrásLoWokePorUnaIzquierdaMásProgresista

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CANCELADOS en El Mundo

¡Finalmente en línea! Muchas gracias a Daniel Arjona por una entrevista que invita a la reflexión. Foto Gorka Leiza / Araba Press.

Sobre el título: "El pensador turco que quiere salvar a la izquierda". No soy tan ambicioso. Sólo pienso que la izquierda tiene problemas muy importantes y podemos solucionarlos trabajando juntos.

🔎 "Sí, ahora las cartas están sobre la mesa y podemos ver cómo las guerras culturales han abierto un cisma terrible que nos aleja de los derechos humanos universales y coarta la libertad de expresión. ¿Por qué no podemos salir a la calle y decir que lo de Hamás ha sido una masacre injustificable y que la respuesta de Israel castigando a dos millones de personas por ello también es un crimen? Ambas son verdades al mismo tiempo. Más allá de nuestras identidades somos seres humanos. Eso es lo que hemos olvidado. Y algo que me preocupa. En algún momento acabarán las guerras culturales, pero las va a ganar la derecha."

#edicionespaidos @politybooks @Blanquerna FCRI @Blanquerna

#cancelacion #cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #CanceladosDejarAtrásLoWokePorUnaIzquierdaMásProgresista

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Cancelados en El Mundo!

"Las guerras culturales acabarán y las va a ganar la derecha"

📌 Para mi generación, la identidad formaba parte de la política. Hoy toda política va sobre la identidad. La identitad es sagrada.

📌 Los identitarios atacan con aún mayor agresividad a los que en teoría forman parte de su propio bando. Alguien de extrema derecha sería sencillamente un facha. Pero nosotros somos algo peor, somos traidores. Es todo una locura.

📌 Por eso es tan grave la cultura de la cancelación, no sólo por el daño que causa, sino también por la atmósfera de miedo que genera. A mí, que he trabajado siempre para instituciones progresistas, me han llamado fascista. ¡Los fascistas son ellos!

📌 ¿Por qué los progresistas, en lugar de ocuparse de los pronombres personales, no hablan de la persecución de las mujeres en Iran?

📌 Ahora las cartas están sobre la mesa y podemos ver cómo las guerras culturales han abierto un cisma terrible que nos aleja de los derechos humanos universales y coarta la libertad de expresión.

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A Luca, que me demostró que el amor verdadero existe. A Carmen, Julie y Pere, quienes me demostraron que el amor verdadero es más fuerte que la muerte. 💚❤️

#cancelados

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📡 Día de publicación!

CANCELADOS: Dejar atrás lo woke por una izquierda más progresista

Así pues, ¿significa todo esto que los asuntos que preocupan a la izquierda woke no son importantes? Por supuesto que no. ¿Deberíamos posponer su abordaje hasta que resolvamos otros problemas mas urgentes? No necesariamente. ¿Creo que la politica identitaria nos está distrayendo de los problemos no relacionados con las guerras culturales? Sí, en efecto. ¿Creo que el activismo woke es un pasatiempo narcisista de las clases medias y medias altas, impulsado por el empoderamiento individual? Totalmente. Y me pregunto por qué son tan pocos los izquierdistas progresistas que grita «!el emperador no tiene ropa!».

@politybooks #

#CulturaDeLaCancelació #culturadelacancelación #cancelados #canceladas #izquierda #woke #progresistas

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4WtaryP1DM

We couldn't meet in London at the The Free Speech Union - freespeechunion.orgevent, but in the interim we realized we shared a lot on the state of the "Left" today, and Ashley was kind enough to invite me to her podcast. We talked, and talked, and talked.

About the disappearance of class, how neoliberalism captured progressive politics, the intolerance of the identitarian Left to dissent and disagreement, the nonsense that's called "no-debate", the hijacking and commodification of identity politics, Loretta and William Fuller, and a lot more.

Thank you Ashley Frawley It's good to know we are not alone!

@SublationTok w/AshleyAFrawley @Sublation Media @politybooks
#neoliberalism #classpolitics #workingclass #identitarianleft #culture #culturewars #cancelled #cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke

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This week was all about cancellation - a topic we keep coming back to here at The New Flesh. @UOzkirimli has written a fantastic book about the current state of Left politics and how we can claw back from the brink. Listen with an open mind and let us know what you think.

https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/the-new-flesh/id1568844882

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCROS1gR_1Q

@politybooks #thenewfleshpodcast #cancelculture #cancelled #cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #identitypolitics #woke #culturewars #gender #transgender #genderwars

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Identity politics is in bed with neoliberalism. So the left needs instead to find a way to talk to people, to listen!" At our recent in-person event, Prof @UOzkirimli explained how the left can move beyond the toxicity of wokeness. Full video below!

youtube.com/watch?v=kUzPfM…

@politybooks @The Free Speech Union

#cancelculture #cancelled #cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #identitypolitics #woke #culturewars #gender #transgender

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It took me a while to recover, but here we go. It was one hell of an event. 100 people in the audience, 400 more online, two eminent colleagues-friends, Alice Sullivan and Alan Sokal discussing my book, several right leaning people coming to me after the event, saying we made them think, others queueing to get their copy of Cancelled signed. It was surreal, but stimulating and giving us hope. The beginning of a conversation between the Right and the Left as Jan Macvarish put it. Thank you FSU!

@politybooks #cancelculture #cancelled #cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #identitypolitics #woke #culturewars #genderwars #gender #trans #transgender #

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I am extremely pleased that the piece we've been working on "secretly" the whole summer has finally seen the light of day. 15 September is the first anniversary of the publication of Laura Favaro's (in)famous Times Higjer Education piece on "Academia's Gender Wars". Some of you know what happened since then. If not, you can read it here.

Laura was kind enough to share her ordeal with me (thank you Laura for trusting me after all you've been through). Our conversation turned into an academic article which will - hopefully - be published in the peer reviewed open access journal @teknokultura. But we thought this deserves to be shared with a wider audience, and co-authored this short, more accessible, version.

This is dedicated to all those academics who are cancelled for questioning established dogmas about sex and gender. It is also a reminder to cancel culture denialists and cancellers that we will not let you dictate what to think or what to believe.

@politybooks @Sublation Media #cancelculture #cancelled #cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #woke #identitypolitics #culturewars #genderwars #gender #terf #trans #transgender #thecriticmagazine

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One of the reasons cancel culture flourished among this generation. I am Gen X and I am proud!

#davechappelle #cancelculture #cancelled #cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #genz #genzie #genx #genxandproud

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We had another conversation with Andrew, this time on online bullying and the menacing turn of social media, once hailed as an emancipatory force.

It was personal too. I talked about my first encounter with AKP trolls during the Gezi protests, the miraculous crowdfunding campaign which extended our son Luca's life for another year, and my 2020 cancellation by reactionary progressives who joined forces with pro-government media and the Turkish state to get me imprisoned.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-twitter-and-facebook-are-like-nuclear-weapons/id1448694012?i=1000625569290

#socialmedia #Twitter #MarkZuckerberg #ArabSpring #geziprotests #turkey #türkiye #cancelculture #woke #cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #onlinebullying #elonmusk @politybooks

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𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 in Sublation (Left Commentary on Politics, Culture, History, and Philosophy from @Sublation Media )

"But that is just part of a bigger story. The likes of David Goodhart, Matthew Goodwin, Eric Kaufmann, Paul Embery, Douglas Murray are not only trying to understand the rise of anti-systemic, in most cases illiberal and authoritarian, movements; they also seem to be interested in justifying and amplifying them. They are advancing a perilously nativist, White-majority-oriented agenda, while downplaying the far right threat to liberal democracy. The success of their project depends on the invention of a useful ideological nemesis, and what better candidate for this role than the woke Left, in the absence of more traditional enemies like, say, old-style communists or socialists?"

📌 An excerpt from Cancelled (chapter 2) where I critically engage with identity politics on the Right.

@politybooks
#cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #nativism #WhiteNationalism #populism #illiberalism #farright #matthewgoodwin #matthewgoodwin #somewheresanywheres #whiteshift #whiteshiftobia #migration

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I wrote on Gucci's Aria campaign and the commodification of identity politics for 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜.

https://thecritic.co.uk/luxury-politics-and-the-left/

"If anything, it was slick. A tantalising display of wallets in diverse sizes and shapes, all were christened with the unmistakable GG logo “in silver and gold finish” on my otherwise quite stale Instagram feed. Why was I seeing this ad, though? I’ve never had a Gucci anything in my life, and I could certainly not afford any of the wallets on display, the cheapest of which cost £378.

Then I noticed the book with matching colours that rested quietly next to the wallets on the tiny coffee table, as an accessories’ accessory. It took some zooming, but I finally managed to read: Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler. Would this be why the ad appeared on my timeline? But Gucci and Butler? Butler and Gucci?"

#gucci #guccibeauty #gucciaria #JudithButler
#commodification #IdentityPolitics #Neoliberalism #bodiesthatmatter #precarity #whoisafraidofgender #gender #newfascism #totallydesirable

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I am happy to announce the first public event on 𝑪𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝑾𝒂𝒚 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒐𝒌𝒆. Heartfelt thanks to Alice Sullivan and Ashley Frawley for kindly agreeing to critically engage with my book and to The Free Speech Union - freespeechunion.org for offering me a platform, knowing where I stand politically.

📆 Wednesday 13th September

📍The Hall, The Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

⏰ 7.30pm (please arrive by 7.15pm)
@politybooks

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐎̈𝐳𝐤𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐥𝐢’𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 ‘𝐰𝐨𝐤𝐞’ 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬. 𝐀𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐐 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀.

#cancelledtheleftwaybackfromwoke #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #cancelculture #outrage #IdentityPolitics #culturewars #GenderWars #DemocraticSocialism

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