Jonathan Blow: Don't invite me to conferences if you've succumbed to cancel culture-style pressure
Blow: "If you have uninvited a lecturer by yielding to pressures in the style of cancel culture, regardless of the political orientation of the cancellers, be they left, right or any other orientation, I will not speak at your conferences. It does not matter how many years have passed and how much you apologized and swore to have changed. Signed by me.
(If there were many to take the same position, maybe the conferences would notice). "
His is a defense tout court of freedom of expression, not a political attack on a particular faction. Of course it was not taken that way by many social network goers, who attacked him in packs, so much so that Blow was forced to explain:
"I don't want to stop any conference from canceling anyone! do, they have to cancel me too. Okay? "
Blow's stance stems from the unwillingness of Robert Cecil Martin, better known as Uncle Bob, from a conference in Chicago because of his political beliefs (ha declared that he voted for Donald Trump in the last US elections, while admitting he chose what he saw as the lesser evil).
Uncle Bob is a world-renowned computer scientist, author of many books and consultant of international level. However, it seems that someone, evidently belonging to the radical left, opposed his presence and scared the organization to death.
