Hello Simpletons, and welcome to Episode 4 of ‘The Simple Stuff’! For this episode, I got together with Emma and Bella in a small student kitchen on a rainy Oxford day and we had a chat about cancel culture. The discussion covered topics like the problematic relationship between comedy and offensiveness, accountability and the pitfalls of celebrity. In a week that saw the nation’s favourite detective, Coleen Rooney, throw Rebekah Vardy to the Twitter lion’s pit, it seemed right to have a discussion about the dehumanisation of figures in the public eye online, and how we might be living in an attention economy.

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FURTHER READING:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2019/08/13/sarah-silverman-and-the-complexity-of-cancel-culture/#1cfc2adc3ee7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ePvuDm5Is

http://gal-dem.com/cancel-chris-brown/

https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/opinion/cancel-culture-call-out/

Keira Knightley Hollywood Reporter podcast: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/awards-chatter-podcast-keira-knightley-colette-1147393