Cancel culture. Cancel culture. The right wing trumpets it so many times it rings in my ears. Freedom of speech, the right’s mouth pieces claim, is “silenced” by the liberals and socialists who, conservatives say, control the nation’s media and universities, canceling out all but their own speech.
But it is not those on the left that threaten free speech in any systematic way. It is those on the right that have a long and continuing history of silencing those who espouse even moderately progressive ideas and programs.
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