Experts sparred over cancel culture on Dr. Phil Monday, with one saying things are worse now than during "the Red Scare, McCarthyism" and another claiming college classrooms are "extremely conservative." Phil McGraw, better known as Dr.
Phil, introduced the topic in the episode titled "You Can't Say That!" "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!
You can’t say that! You’re canceled and banished from society forever because you can’t say that!’" he said and condemned that mindset as a "mob mentality." He brought on executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center Shaun Harper and Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, to represent both sides of the cancel culture debate.
Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center, Shaun Harper, on an episode of Dr. Phil. (CBS) Lukianoff warned that while things were not "great" for free speech in 2001, cancel culture on campus has become exponentially worse in recent years, saying, "I have never seen anything like it in my career than I’ve seen over the last two years, and particularly going back to 2015." He explained further, "2015 is when I started seeing tenured professors getting fired for what they said.
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