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NY TIMES BLASTED BY ITS OWN READERS FOR ‘APPALLING’ CLAIMS IT MAKES ABOUT ‘FREE
SPEECH’ AND ‘CANCEL CULTURE’

Published

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March 18, 2022 at 09:56 AM ET

By

David Badash

The New York Times Editorial Board is under fire for what its own readers are
calling an “appalling” editorial that claims “America Has a Free Speech
Problem.” It is a massive treatise, well over 2500 words, that essentially
blames liberals for “cancel culture” and conservatives for banning books – and
manages to equate the two as equal, something the Times is criticized for doing
on multiple topics frequently.

Rather than quote the Times piece – it can be read here – we’re going to quote
some of what the Times’ own readers voted as the best comments responding to the
editorial.





“This editorial is appalling,” writes a reader from Baltimore. “Clearly, the
Editorial Board is feeling touchy about the widespread ridicule of its recent
decision to characterize as a political crisis an undergrad’s discomfort at
expressing her opinions in class. I guess you need to be reminded that the 1st
Amendment does not guarantee the right not to be ‘shamed or shunned.’ You are
creating a false equivalency between private citizens’ opposition to willful
disinformation and points of view they find objectionable, and the recent
Republican craze for using the levers of government to stifle discussion of
particular topics.”





The Baltimore reader is referring to a widely-criticized op-ed the Times
published earlier this month written by a college senior complaining about
“cancel culture” and claiming she feels she has to “self-censor.” That student
identified herself as a liberal yet writes for a right-wing outlet, cited
right-wing media, and interned at a Koch-funded foundation. She even praised a
right-wing professor at her school who is an anti-LGBTQ activist. As several
said, she cited no actual examples of harm that came from her speaking her
opinion.

A reader from New York City commenting on the Editorial Board’s piece says they
“have never liked the phrase ‘Cancel Culture’ as it creates an easy scapegoat by
attacking the terminology and not the underlying sentiment. When I replace the
phrase ‘Cancel Culture’ with ‘Accountability Culture’ I am much more inclined to
to accept it. I do not think people should be ‘Cancelled’ for their view points
or what they say but I do feel people should be held ‘Accountable’ for their
words just as they are for their actions.”





Theresa from Vermont says she is “stunned to read this. Free speech is protected
in the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from restricting speech,
protects the right not to speak, and protects against government censorship. It
does not protect a speaker from accountability and responsibility for their
speech. I’m a senior citizen, and never remember a time when everyone was
expected to listen to every bad idea, all the bad science, every hateful
expression, or every lie or misrepresentation of fact, in the name of free
speech. Facts and truth, and validity of argument, matter if you want someone to
listen. This opinion is totally off the mark, both in analysis of free speech
and historical tradition.”

Another reader from New York says, “it seems to me this editorial went really
far out of its way to attempt [to] blame the left and the right evenly for
cancel culture. But it is not the left that is burning books, it’s not the left
that are attacking people in school board meetings, in our Capital, on social
media day in and day out. It is not left wing “news” shows that are spreading
misinformation daily and it is not the left that have members of Congress
shouting out in chambers as if they are calling to a rival at a NASCAR event.
Once again the false equivalency between the left and the right helps normalize
the behavior from the right that we abhor.”

Dan from Naples says: “I have never felt restrained or curtailed from stating my
opinion or voicing my feelings with one exception. The violence that the Right
in this country embrace and the gun culture that has become a religion with the
Right makes me consider where I am and in what kind of surrounding I’m in before
stating what I believe.”





And from Washington, D.C., a reader adds: “If people are more uncomfortable
talking about politics because they think they will be judged, it is because of
the political moment that we are in. One of our two political parties is getting
dangerously close to overthrowing our system of government. It should make you
uncomfortable to support that. It should make you uncomfortable to go along with
it because you refuse to acknowledge what is happening or because you want a tax
cut or whatever.”

Lastly, a reader from SOMA says definitively, “NO. I think it is appropriate to
shame and remove from public discourse those that repeat lies that hurt
people–such as the lies about scientific information about Covid that kills.
Because as we have seen–misinformation does kill. No I do not want to hear
alternative truths in the name of free speech. It is destroying society.
Especially when the undereducated are lauded by so many, and propaganda abounds
that people cannot discern the difference between fact and fiction. We must set
some boundaries for when public figures lie to the detriment of the public. They
must be held accountable. I’m not sure how we do it, but I know we must.”

 

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‘TV TERRORIST’ DONALD TRUMP BLASTED FOR TELLING FOLLOWERS THEY ‘MUST LAY DOWN
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on

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By

David Badash

Donald Trump is calling on his followers to “lay down their very lives” to
defend the United States against critical race theory. The disgraced former
president delivered that dangerous call to arms at his “Save America” rally
Saturday night in Florence, South Carolina.

“Getting critical race theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values,
it’s also a matter of national survival,” Trump told his MAGA supporters.
So-called critical race theory is not something that is taught in K-12 grades,
it is a college-level interdisciplinary means to examine social and
institutional constructs surrounding race.

“We have no choice,” Trump continued, a claim he often makes when speaking
falsely.

That’s when he laid the groundwork for weaponizing his followers in the racist
battle inside his mind that one day may erupt in physical war on our streets.

“The fate of any nation depends upon the willingness of its citizens to lay down
– and they must do this – lay down their very lives to defend their country. If
we allow the Marxists and communists and socialists to teach our children to
hate America there will be no one left to defend our flag or to protect our
great country or its freedom.”





Backlash was strong and swift.

“Calling for political violence to stop the teaching of accurate history in our
schools is what fascism looks like,” commented Indivisible’s Sarah Dohl.

“Trump doesn’t want a political party. He wants an army. He’s a TV terrorist
yes. But he’s also a real fascist,” wrote Condé Nast Legal Affairs Editor Luke
Zaleski. “Attacking the Capitol, waiting, calling it off, then telling them he
loved them after they terrorized the country and got his message across was a
kind of a hint, folks.”

Zaleski later added: “Trump is a traitor and political mob boss.”

Civil-rights lawyer Subodh Chandra described Trump’s remarks as a “call to a
violent race war. Over nothing but the teaching of our actual history. (CRT is
not taught in public schools.)”

“Donald Trump,” said Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, “who seems to be
in the running for 2024, tells a nation awash in guns to kill or be killed in
order to stop anyone from ‘hating our country.'”

“Scenes from a slow civil war,” observed Vanity Fair contributing editor Jeff
Sharlet, who exposed the international right-wing Christian fundamentalist
theocratic organization known as The Family.

“What does this mean?” asked Georgetown University McCourt School of Public
Policy professor Don Moynihan. “If you are a teacher in a state you probably
feel less and less safe by the extremist nature of this rhetoric.”

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On International Women’s Day, Fox News propagandist Greg Gutfeld chose to lament
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