This week, we talk to our friend Manuel (Manny) Galvan, a graduate student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about the election, political polarization in America, the excesses of the left, cancel culture, BLM/Defund the Police, and Manny's vision of a way forward.
You can find Manny on Twitter @MGalvanPsych; his blog, The Science of Social Problems: https://scienceofsocialproblems.com/author/scienceofsocialproblems/; and The Pipettepen: http://www.thepipettepen.com/author/mjgalvan/

Cancel culture
Cancel culture is a significant issue for conservatives: https://theweek.com/articles/928464/cancel-culture-conservative-glass-houses
To some extent the morel panic over Cancel culture is a billionaire-funded operation:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/dark-money-behind-campus-speech-wars/
https://prospect.org/justice/care-faux-free-speech-warriors-koch-brothers-paying-bills./
https://fair.org/home/panic-over-cancel-culture-is-another-example-of-right-wing-projection/
https://www.mediamatters.org/james-okeefe/conservative-dark-money-groups-infiltrating-campus-politics#cr

Empirical evidence of a cancel culture “crisis” on college campuses:
https://www.niskanencenter.org/there-is-no-campus-free-speech-crisis-a-close-look-at-the-evidence/
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/free-speech-crisis-revisited/

Conservative overrepresentation on social media: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/censorship-conservatives-social-media-432643

Berkeley police bias
CPE (Center for Policing Equity) report: https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Police/Level_3_-_General/CPE%20Draft%20Report%2007142017(2).pdf
Berkeley students call for the defunding of the UCPD: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kyxmd0FpPfFjtogxAz_dgfv4LqmKAjOTw1mN_BvikKo/edit
https://www.dailycal.org/2020/07/23/racial-disparities-in-berkeley-police-stop-data-may-indicate-racial-bias/