Eric Rumple: “Both conservatives and liberals have practiced cancel culture, but progressives control the country’s major universities, and it is at those major universities where cancel culture is the most inexcusable and damaging.”
Salt Lake County Council member-elect Suzanne Harrison before an inauguration ceremony at the council chambers in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.Cancel culture has been most prominently, and shamefully, practiced by progressives at the country’s leading universities. Speakers at major universities with conservative cultural and economic policy positions have been harassed, insulted and threatened at schools such as Stanford and those in the Ivy League.
The Utah Senate’s Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Confirmation Committee declined to approve Gov. Spencer Cox’s nomination of Salt Lake County Council member Suzanne Harrison to the Utah Air Quality Board. As I understand it, those Republicans on the committee who voted against Harrison did so on the basis of policy position disagreements with Harrison regarding things such as Tier 3 gasoline and tax breaks for Utah refineries.
Whether one is a university student or a member of a government board, one’s viewpoints and policy positions are enhanced by hearing different and at times contrary positions. If nothing else, hearing contrary views, and then in one’s own mind refuting such contrary viewpoints only strengthens and reconfirms one’s own viewpoint. At times, perhaps, hearing a contrary viewpoint will cause one to adjust and improve one’s own views.
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