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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Unless you work in academia, the arts, or media and place a high value in open discourse - as most of the signatories to this letter do.
One of the signatories of the letter, Margaret Atwood, commenting about the attack on Salman Rushdie (another signatory) had this to say about free speech:
Just last week the president of the American Historical Association was denounced by a furious mob of activists for expressing mild and judicious criticism of the 1619 project.
https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=14258
To salvage his career he issued a grovelling statement of contrition that reads like something out of a 1920s show trial.
https://www.historians.org/publicati...of-the-present |
None of those people can be expressed as prominent political figures of the left...