Source: spiked
by Brendan O’Neill
Interview with Greg Lukianoff. Lukianoff: “One of the reasons I’m worried about the future of freedom of speech, in the United States and beyond, is that there used to be a contingent of the left that unapologetically defended free expression. These people were always in tension with those totalitarians who believed that, if society was governed by enlightened people like them, censorship would be justified. For the most part, I grew up at a time when freedom of speech was actually considered a left-wing value. But with totalitarian thinking winning on the left and the rise of the populist right, there’s no natural constituency for free speech today other than the centre.” (06/19/24)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/06/19/conformity-is-the-enemy-of-free-speech/