Is it time for cancel culture to be canceled?
That’s the goal of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute, which debuted in May. Its president, Paul du Quenoy, is leading the organization in a fight against what many view as unfair firings and public defamation ordeals.
“It was a realization that the other think tanks, like the standard Washington and New York think tanks, are really boring and just don’t do very much, comparatively speaking,” du Quenoy told the Washington Examiner. “They’re not into direct action. They’ll write reports, they’ll write white papers, but largely they’re ineffective at promoting anything meaningful — defensive civil rights, which is our main mission. We wanted something more active.”
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By “more active,” du Quenoy means that eventually the organization will help connect “people who face civil rights or constitutional issues” with legal assistance, as well as educational programs for taboo topics in academia and disseminating knowledge about topics that don’t get media attention.
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The group also seeks to interact with politicians who it believes can help “effect positive change.”
The institute focuses on topics from Title IX firings to censorship — “views and values that aren’t being represented in the traditional Washington establishment,” in du Quenoy’s own words.
The institute is also concentrating on helping interpreters escape Afghanistan, and du Quenoy said there has been “great success” in resettling some to the United States under the special immigrant visa program.
There was also the institute’s role in the Afghanistan evacuation with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, involving safely moving 272 students and faculty members initially without necessary U.S. documentation, the last ones being brought to Qatar on Nov. 16 and eventually reconstituting their school in Portugal, du Quenoy added.
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When it comes to cancel culture, the Palm Beach Freedom Institute seeks to take on issues of censorship and “thought control,” he continued. His book, Cancel Culture: Tales from the Front Lines, was released on Oct. 15.
“Rather than just complaining about cancel culture — it’s very easy to write outreach copy about cancel culture, but this is looking toward solutions,” he said. “How are you going to fight back? What are you going to do if somebody’s canceled?”
If an author says something on social media that results in an “outrage mob,” the Palm Beach Freedom Institute will take up whatever literature a “cowardly” publisher canceled if it suits the organization’s ideology.
In cases where one is legally vindicated, it doesn’t necessarily mean one’s reputation is repaired, so the group seeks to take on issues like Title IX that “have absolutely destroyed people.”
The goal, essentially, is to cancel out cancel culture.
