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Woody Allen Calls Cancel Culture ‘an Embarrassment,’ Invokes McCarthy Era

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Director Woody Allen attends a news conference for his film Midnight In Paris at the 64th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 11, 2011.

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Film director Woody Allen has declared that cancel culture is “an embarrassment” and predicted that it would be remembered like the McCarthy era.

In comments made to a Spanish-language publication and translated into English by the film site World of Reel, Allen is quoted as saying:

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