This week, we talk to our friend Manuel (Manny) Galvan, agraduate student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about the election, political polarization in America, the excesses of the left, cancel culture, BLM/Defund the Police, and Manny's vision of a way forward.
You can find Manny on Twitter @MGalvanPsych; his blog, The Science of Social Problems: https://scienceofsocialproblems.com/author/scienceofsocialproblems/; and The Pipettepen: http://www.thepipettepen.com/author/mjgalvan/
Cancel culture
Cancel culture is a significant issue for conservatives: https://theweek.com/articles/928464/cancel-culture-conservative-glass-houses
To some extent the morel panic over Cancel culture is a billionaire-funded operation:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/dark-money-behind-campus-speech-wars/
https://prospect.org/justice/care-faux-free-speech-warriors-koch-brothers-paying-bills./
https://fair.org/home/panic-over-cancel-culture-is-another-example-of-right-wing-projection/
https://www.mediamatters.org/james-okeefe/conservative-dark-money-groups-infiltrating-campus-politics#cr
Empirical evidence of a cancel culture “crisis” on college campuses:
https://www.niskanencenter.org/there-is-no-campus-free-speech-crisis-a-close-look-at-the-evidence/
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/free-speech-crisis-revisited/
Conservative overrepresentation on social media: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/censorship-conservatives-social-media-432643
Berkeley police bias
CPE (Center for Policing Equity) report:https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Police/Level_3_-_General/CPE%20Draft%20Report%2007142017(2).pdf
Berkeley students call for the defunding of the UCPD: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kyxmd0FpPfFjtogxAz_dgfv4LqmKAjOTw1mN_BvikKo/edit
https://www.dailycal.org/2020/07/23/racial-disparities-in-berkeley-police-stop-data-may-indicate-racial-bias/
