Greg Lukianoff works for FIRE, the defender of free speech on campus. He’s on a crusade to convince skeptics that cancel culture is unique and special. I’m in the skeptical camp on that point. I know that censorship is normal, and I also know that many of the “canceleds” were either fired for other reasons or playing the old “banned in Boston” game.
I was reading Lukianoff with interest, trying to be open to persuasion. He granted “other reasons” as valid but insufficient to explain the modern quantity of cancels, which kept me reading. He lost me right here:
Then they put up posters of all the students who invited them with their faces and names on it. Which my organization, FIRE, is like, “They can do that.” We don’t think it’s necessarily nice, but they can do that.
NO.
Doxxing is not free speech by any of the traditional moral or legal definitions. Doxxing is a specific invitation to violence, which has always been excluded from free speech. If you think doxxing is OK, you’re encouraging the worst side of tyranny.
Just another fucking bait and switch.
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