J. P. E. Harper-Scott resigns in protest against 'cancel culture'.

[Bryn]

J. P. E. Harper-Scott, a leading musicologist and Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, has taken a stand against the book-burner dangers of the growing departure from academic freedom embraced in cancel culture. My own experience regarding the cancellation by Goldsmith Press of "Scratch Music" ed Cornelius Cardew which was abandoned due to such anti-academic influence springs to mind. As Camus put it, "
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

https://jpehs.co.uk/why-i-left-academia/

[french frank]

JAs Camus put it, "The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

Nick Cohen's piece in the Observer chimed with Camus, with the ignorant idea that a novelist can create a character who has execrable views must mean that the novelist agrees with them. Even if it's clear that the character is supposed to be despicable.

Have we gone from Political Correctness > "Political Correctness Gawn Mad" > Woke culture? I think I read something about a Basil Fawlty John Cleese programme coming looking at the implications of "Woke". John Cleese not a man who has improved with age, but the subject worth analysing.

[Bryn]

Nick Cohen's piece in the Observer chimed with Camus, with the ignorant idea that a novelist can create a character who has execrable views must mean that the novelist agrees with them. Even if it's clear that the character is supposed to be despicable.

Have we gone from Political Correctness > "Political Correctness Gawn Mad" > Woke culture? I think I read something about a Basil Fawlty John Cleese programme coming looking at the implications of "Woke". John Cleese not a man who has improved with age, but the subject worth analysing.

Indeed. Discuss and debate it but don't remove it from the discussable by blocking its accessibility.

[AuntDaisy]

I think I read something about a Basil Fawlty John Cleese programme coming looking at the implications of "Woke". John Cleese not a man who has improved with age, but the subject worth analysing.

Is this the Basil Fawlty John Cleese series, "John Cleese: Cancel Me"?

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-cleese-cancel-culture-documentary-b1907283.html

[french frank]

Is this the Basil Fawlty John Cleese series, "John Cleese: Cancel Me"?
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-b1907283.html

That would be it, yes. Not that I took any further interest, not being able to view it

Nothing as as simple as people want it to be.

[Bryn]

That would be it, yes. Not that I took any further interest, not being able to view it

Nothing as as simple as people want it to be.

It is yet to be broadcast, is it not? I feel sure it will be widely discussed once it has been.