‘You can’t say that’: Guests spar over ‘cancel culture’ on ‘Dr. Phil’

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“cancel culture” on colleges Monday, with one expert analogizing the so-called phenomenon to “McCarthyism,” while the other suggested it was a “conservative” myth.The war of words transpired on Monday’s show during a segment on cancel culture called “You Can’t Say That,” Fox News reported.“People are looking over their shoulders and watching their words out of fear of someone pointing a finger publicly and saying ‘You can’t say that!'” declared the 72-year-old television host, whose real name is Philip McGraw.

The Oklahoman entertainer further compared cancel culture to a “mob mentality” that results in people getting “banished from society forever.” McGraw then brought on two experts to debate the topic: the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Greg Lukianoff and Shaun Harper, Executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center.“I have never seen anything like it in my career than I’ve seen over the last two years,” exclaimed Lukianoff, who had Zoomed into the show.

He claims this unfortunate trend began in, 2015, when he “started seeing tenured professors getting fired for what they said.”The free speech crusader didn’t cite specific cancellation examples.

However recent high-profile alleged incidents have included Peter Boghossian a former philosophy professor at Portland State University in Oregon who resigned in 2021 after being allegedly targeted for criticizing the school’s so-called woke orthodoxy.