Source: TomDispatch
by Nan Levinson
“I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it. I even sang ‘I Like to Be in America’ at the top of my lungs at an around-the-clock banned-book event organized by the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression after the musical ‘West Side Story’ was canceled at a local high school because of its demeaning stereotypes of Puerto Ricans. I was ready to move on. I was done. As it happened, though, free speech — or, more accurately, attacks on it — wasn’t done with me, or with most Americans, as a matter of fact.” [editor’s note: The irony here is that it is the “progressive” forces that are the real enemies of free speech, and you can do little to “cancel” that truth – SAT] [additional editor’s note: “Conservatives” and “progressives” have proven themselves equally enthusiastic enemies of free speech masquerading as friends of same – TLK] (11/14/24)
https://tomdispatch.com/a-democracy-of-voices-if-we-can-keep-it/