Thumbs up, thumbs down, part 1: Cancel culture and terrorist acts

"On the Barricades" s05e21

This is the first installment of this week's “On the Barricades” release. This episode is part of our regular series, which we co-produce and co-host with Youri Smouter of 1+1. Boyan and Youri discuss their general thumbs down toward cancel culture and the caricature of political correctness on the left which has been made norm by the liberal establishment. This broader and growing pathological political culture on the left served as ideological leverage of the left’s cheering of the morally reprehensible murder of Darya Dugina, the Russian journalist. How did the left get so carried away?

5:30 Youri’s thumbs down to leftists that don’t support independent leftist media outlets
6:30 Youri on the attack on Salman Rushdie
8:25 Boyan on the assassination of Darya Dugina, and how terrorism serves reaction
14:21 The case of Joe Rogan, a major success yet prone to cancellation attempts– the problem of conflating aesthetics and politics.
18:35 Leftist anti-communism and self-red-baiting
20:35 Boyan on why leftists don’t go on leftist independent shows, and why it’s a problem
26:20 Youri on what are the implications of trying to be a ‘respectable leftist’
27:30 Ignorance on the left and the role a political organization in educating leftists
31:20 Boyan on the example of Lewica Razem, the leftist political organization in Poland which fails to take ideas to practice