The option to cancel stops you from listening
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when there's an option to cancel somebody, it makes you stop actually listening to us trying to understand what they're saying.
Episode 72: Hitting the Apex (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:13:58 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave's main point about cancel culture: once cancelling someone is an option, people stop trying to understand what that person is saying. With Goldberg, the conversation could have been about how her life experience shapes how she thinks and talks, rather than 'you're evil, be deplatformed'.
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Episode 72: Hitting the Apex (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:16:21 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
the conversation could have been something more akin to, I can see how you're hurt about your life experience, influences the way that you think and talk.
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