Fucking Cancelled

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Fucking Cancelled is a podcast with three aims. First, we analyze and critique a phenomenon on the left that we call the nexus: a synthesis of identitarianism, social media, and cancel culture. Second, we offer emotional, spiritual, and ethical insights into the process of rejecting and exiting the nexus. Third, we move toward a different vision for the left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility.

We are leftists who have spent many years inside the nexus. We have been too afraid to critique it and we have suffered the consequences of critiquing it. We know all too well the destructive impact the nexus has on our communities, our movements, our spiritual, emotional, and mental health, and our capacity to be responsible, ethical actors. We are also recovering addicts who live our lives by a set of spiritual and ethical principles which are starkly at odds with the rules of the nexus. We offer these principles as a guiding light toward a different left.

Fucking Cancelled is a podcast for anyone who feels stifled or trapped by the authoritarian, punishing culture that dominates the left. It’s a podcast for anyone who is too afraid to say what they really think. It’s a podcast for people who have been cancelled, who are afraid of getting cancelled, or who have taken part in the cancellation of others and wondered if it was right. Fucking Cancelled is a podcast for leftists who dream of a left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility, rather than coercion, authoritarianism, and punishment.

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Nobody's Getting Cancelled: Why Murder is Wrong

May 29, 2023

In Episode 46 we discuss the Fucking Cancelled 2023 American tour, followed by a deep dive into our controversial argument that murder is wrong in all circumstances. Attempting to take up the arguments of certain pro-murder anarchists in good faith, we nonetheless maintain that murdering people you don't like...

Replatformed with Alexia Roditis: Hunting Witches Has Turned Into Hunting Bitches

Apr 5, 2023

In Episode 45, we're joined by friend of the pod Alexia Roditis, lead singer of the California band Destroy Boys. We talk about the impact of cancel culture on musicianship, navigating the Nexus while young, and how acting like a cop all the time isn't very punk. We finish off with an acoustic performance of some of...

Experience, Strength and Hope with Kier Adrian Gray: Building A Life to Move Into

Mar 20, 2023

In Episode 44, we're joined by friend of the pod Kier Adrian Gray, a writer and recovering social justice kid based in Vancouver. We discuss the trials and tribulations of being an anarchist in Montreal, the effects of toxic social justice world on mental health, how to get out of the Nexus, and what to do once you're...

Talking Shit with Adolph Reed Jr.: What's Left?

Mar 6, 2023

In episode 43 we are honoured to be joined by Dr. Adolph Reed Jr., professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, long time organizer, and prolific scholar. We discuss the collapse of the Left in North America, the Nexus as the 'left wing of neoliberalism', race reductionism, identiarianism,...

Quest for the Offline Left: Class Unity

Feb 26, 2023

In Episode 42, we are joined by Hephestion and Scott, spokespeople for Class Unity, a Marxist pole of attraction in the United States. We discuss the DSA and Class Unity's decision to seperate from the DSA. We talk solidarity, the necessity of building a movement by and for the working class, and the issues preventing...