j.k. rowling again. and kanye west case, they decided to attack him as mentally ill. you hear that a lot now, but it's a relatively new tactic, just a little over four years ago publishing a piece about kanye west, highlighted his most famous moments like the time he interrupted taylor swift, described all these incidents is controversial but there was no mention of kanye west being a danger to himself, much less mentally ill, just controversial. not a problem, and then he appeared to say something positive about donald trump and everything changed in an instant. kanye west became a babbling lunatic, the kind of guy who pose imaginary insects out of the air and soil since own pants, a total nutcase. watch. >> the event on sunday that you saw clearly in trouble. >> a democratic state representative earlier this summer telling the cnn it is sad to see a popular music artists like kanye be used as a pond or trick his own people and fans. >> a new question this morning about kanye west's mental health this tweet storm and so-called campaign rally. >> you see the ignorance

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j.k. rowling is, you know, exiled from her creation because it's not seen as hers, it's seen as everyone's. often the response to rally has not been let's never read harry potter again, it's, well, we can still write fiction in this community, we can still love these characters, they belong to us. and i think that has kind of writ large can tell us so much about the wider questions of intuitionalism, institutionalism, inwardness and individualization that we're seeing writ large in the book. >> the last question, let's do a post-covid world question, a right? part one, one person says do you think in a post-covid world where people will be looking to find meaning and purpose and community that these sort of newer, stranger faiths will be fast tracked? and do you think that there is a sense in which they could be more like lu to sort of form -- likely to form actual commitments or even cults which is a word we haven't used that much. in a way -- like one way to put it, we're seeing this as sort of a 1968 moment in our politics right now. well, the 1970s were sort of the high tide of weird c

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j.k. rowling as well.e sorcerer's stone" amid the covid-19 pandemic helped $1 billion mark at the global box office. >> it is now the second harry potter film to reach the billion-dollar milestone following "harry potter and the deathly hallows" from 2011. will, we need to catch up. >> yes, we do. >>> coming up, the little boy who's overcoming giant obstacles. >> that's right. how the 6-year-old is spending his birthday helping other kids. are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 54.ic you can get coverage for $9.95 a month. i'm 65 and take medications. what's my price? also $9.95 a month. i stju tne what's my price? $9.95 a month for you too. if you're age 50 to 85, call now about the #1 most popular whole life insurance plan, available through the colonial penn program. it has an affordable rate starting at $9.95 a month. no medical exam, no health questions. your acceptance is guaranteed. and this plan has a guaranteed lifetime rate lock, so your rate c

j.k. rowling, beloved millions, but also under fire for commentshe's made that were seen as anti-transgender. >> quite frankly, some of the signatories are bigoted, are bigots. and so it's very easy to see why, why folks would be angry. >> brown: i asked williams if he regretted including any of the signers. >> i have no regrets of anybody being on the list. i really don't think that anybody that signed our letter is a bigot. i think everyby is committed to liberal values. >> brown: in the meantime, donald trump, too, now regularly rms are used in differen ways in different audiences to very different ends. for the "pbs newshour," i'm jeffrey brown. >> sy: that's all from here, judy. >> woodruff: and before we go, am nawaz is here with a preview of what we can expect tonight at the republican convention. >> nawaz: one of the speechesto ght already sparking controversy, that from secretary of state mike pompeobreaking with the long-standing precedent of the country's top diplomatt staying domestic politics. his pre-recorded remarks from w jerusalere he is on official business, will air tonigh

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j.k. rowling the harry potter author signed this prominent liberal letter explaining decrying the cancel culturefrom liberals everyone who signed that letter is a liberal. listen to this. this is her with bill maher on friday. >> what cancel culture is about is not criticism. it is about punishment. the writer jonathan raush has called it something like social murder. and i think that's right. not just about punishing the sinner not just about punishing the person for being insufficiently pure. it's about a sort of secondary boycott of people who would gain to speak to that person or appear on a platform with that person. in order to do our job well writers and editors we need to have a level of bravery and thick skin and fearlessness. when you are living in fear of an online mob, you know, all it takes is a dozen people to repeat a lie about you. ainsley: she said the next step, if you don't agree with us, the next step is violence. it's about punishment. it's about making people radio ache tifer and taking away jobs. pete: it's absolutely true. a huge difference between liberals and leftists.

j.k. rowling and some other liberal individuals have spoken out against cancel culture.nderstand and that your viewers should understand in this week long series that you are having is that cancel culture should be understood properly not as just a trend that's happening online or something that people are ungeajed in in a casual manner. it's much more akin to a religion. it has sins. it has commandments. it has trials by fire. it has burning at the stake. what it doesn't have is forgiveness or grace. any kind of human emotion that would understand that people can make mistakes or say things you disagree with and that doesn't mean that you need to hate and destroy them. you mentioned the fact that this was written in a seattle paper by a university of washington professor. i just interviewed on the federalist radio hour our radio show katie her zog who is a writer in seattle who herself was canceled after a focus basically she wrote a feature piece that paid attention to people who had transitioned and then regretted it. for that her name was smeared all over the place.