Courage is Contagious: Rikki Schlott on Fighting Back Against Cancel Culture

John Stossel

23-year-old Rikki Schlott self-censored her views in college.

What did she believe that was so terrible?

Well, she's a right-leaning libertarian.

At NYU, that's scary, she says.

"I was afraid to have Thomas Sowell books on my bookshelf," says Schlott.

She kept her mouth shut and eventually dropped out of NYU because she found it stifling.

But now, Schlott is fighting back. Her new book Cancelling of the American Mind, details how cancel culture crushes people who think differently.

"We need to come together and actually fight back." Schlott tells me, "We want to live in a free speech culture and not a cancel culture."

Watch the video to learn more about Rikki Schott's fight.