Ash Sarkar, a British activist who has publicly proclaimed herself a communist, told Australia's 60 Minutes she believes that cancel culture is "freedom of speech itself." Sarkar is in the middle of a feud with TV personality Piers Morgan.
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— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) June 6, 2021
"High-profile activist and journalist Ash Sarkar isn’t afraid to take Piers on. She says cancelling is not a new form of mob rule but an important tool of social justice," the video begins.
"I don't think that the problem matches up to the scale of the news coverage, conversation and moral panic that surrounds it," opined Sarkar, after lashing out at Morgan, who she says is "threatened" by differing opinions.
"Now come on. 'Dr. Seuss' is 'gone with the wind?'" quipped the interviewer.
"So, I think those things aren't examples of cancellation. What we see are really important literary texts, whether it's children's literature or a piece of cinema that is absolutely iconic, being interpreted and critiqued in different ways."
"That's not an attack on freedom of speech; that's actually in the spirit of academic interrogation, and freedom of speech itself." Sarkar unequivocally self-identifies as a communist. "Luxury communism now!" is seen in her self-description on her Twitter account. In another interview she told an interviewer "I'm a communist, you idiot."
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