Uppsala Student Union debating cancelkultur

Minister of Education Mats Persson. Photo: Johannes Frandsen/Government Offices

      Today, the chairman of Uppsala Student Union Anton Sánchez Sulejmani published a debate article in Altinget. In the article, the Minister of Education, Mats Persson, is challenged to define what he really means by cancel culture and is urged to rethink their planned education on cancel culture. "Of course, we appreciate Persson's commitment to a university with high ceilings and free and respectful exchanges of views. What we do not appreciate is Persson's approach to portray identity politics as the obstacle to such discussions. their full debate article can be read here: "Who really gets canceled, Mats Persson?".

      We also summarise the background and elaborate on some of the points we make in the opinion piece in the following twitter thread:

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