On December 15th, 2020, Thistle sat down with Political Cartoonist from the UK, Stella Perrett, to talk about her new book called “2020 — The Year We All Were Cancelled!” The book is a collection of Stella’s best political cartoons from the year and synopses of cases of people or ideas that were “cancelled” due to expressing views that are not mainstream.

To buy Ms. Perrett’s book, please click on this link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2020…

In this interview, you’ll hear Stella talk about her personal story of being let go by the Morning Star communist newspaper after she published a cartoon that expressed concern about transgender ideology.

You will also hear Stella and Thistle tease out the differences between free speech and hate speech and conclude that much of the censoring of women’s voices has to do with misogyny, and not just with the suppression of free speech.

There are many moments during the interview that Stella expresses her undying support for true free speech and the value of political cartooning, an art form that is threatened by the heightened “wokeness” of the press we are seeing as the rise of transgenderism and identity politics continues.

To see Stella’s new cartoons on a weekly basis, please follow this link: http://www.uncancelled.co.uk/

Stella’s website is here: http://www.spanglefish.com/stellaillu…

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