Our t. V. Dot com and get a complete look at your news right now stay with us for an amazing programming. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im peter a little sri member the phrase to honest people can disagree this concept as essentially been the bedrock of western civilization enlightenment its also the origins of the american 1st amendment cancel culture is putting all this in question are we now ruled by the hecklers. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Brad Blankenship in prague he is a freelance journalist as well as a journalist for c. G. T. And and in bloomington we have mike a kernis he is a r. T. Calmness and a comic book writer all right gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was it was good and its going to bradford. You know it was a bit over the last few weeks watching this whole cancel culture phenomenon and i find it just completely ludicrous anti intellectual and a historical. Antir
Hello and welcome to crosstalk were all things are considered im peter a little cash remember the phrase to honest people can disagree this concept as essentially been the bedrock of western civilization since the enlightenment its also the origins of the american 1st amendment cancel culture is putting all this in question are we now ruled by the hecklers. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Brad Blankenship in prague he is a freelance journalist as well as a journalist. And in bloomington we have Michael Kernis he is a r. T. Columnist and a comic book writer all right gentlemen crossed up or is an affair. That means you can jump in anytime you want and i was it was good and its going to bradford. You know it will be over the last few weeks watching this whole cancel culture phenomenon and i find it is a completely ludicrous anti intellectual and a historical. Antirational ok im a trained historian and i history is full of tragedies that were supposed to learn from ok not w
A hit and let me bring in mike here i mean we have a history you know critically when we look at an american context of what you shouldnt say offensive language you know im going to load that but now its right language what you should say now that is very different from our cultural tradition here and there but if people are going over the line now basically its mind control you can say this but you cant say that before you shouldnt say certain things that would be obviously universally agreed to be of like. Well and thats thats generally where we sit these days i think that in a lot of ways there is this sort of massive amount of offensive ideas that are not allowed to be spoken there verboten a sense you know you youre not allowed to say certain words youre not allowed to say certain phrases someone so forth. That we didnt even consider controversial 1015 years ago if someone if a celebrity is to say well one good example would be terry crews was to say you know fatherlessness is an
A collapse in relations in korea the north dramatically blows up a diplomatic outpost and vows to send troops into the demilitarized south warns its neighbor will pay a price. Good morning im kevin 0 in here with you from the out international worldview center more scope recapping for the next hour the big stories as reported by us over the last 7 days thanks to accompany the 1st to overnight developments in the United States and seattles police free occupation protest where a shooting has left one dead and another injured officers say they had trouble trying to get into the area and got a violent reaction from the crowd the additional shots were fired in a park in the socalled autonomous. Well the suspect or suspects. Several police retreated from there so not to protest the started throwing projectiles causing officers to use crowd control weapons the capitol hill organize protest all chopped for short has been occupying a district in central seattle for 2 weeks now president of the
And the collapse in relations in korea the north dramatically blowing up a diplomatic outpost in the week and troops into the Demilitarized Zone the south warning its neighbor to it will pay a price. Just to moscow good afternoon then im kevin owen here from International World news center recapping for the next hour the big stories reported by us over the last 7 days thanks for your company by the way 1st than a deadly incident overnight in minneapolis which has just been coming in the details of this but a shooting in the uptown area the one person is known to have died in the 11 others have been injured there in hospital but are not thought to have life threatening wounds we hear its not clear yet whether anyone has been taken into custody or what the motive was the air. Area where it happened is about 3 miles west of the district struck by rioting in the wake of the killing of george floyd. Also overnight a deadly shooting in seattles police free occupation protest one man dead the