Cancel culture is an element of liberal fascism transferred from academia

Liz Peek:

Activists sue to block a Trump rally, the New York Times fires a non-compliant editor, Twitter “fact-checks” conservative voices.

Ivanka Trump, Sid Rosenberg, Erik Prince, Raymond Ibrahim, Jeh Johnson, Kevin McAleenan and countless others “disinvited” to speak on college campuses.

Wonder where today’s “cancel culture” comes from? It comes from college campuses, fueled by young people and abetted by an older generation that has not had the courage to say no.

This is how the slide toward totalitarianism begins.

Silencing the opposition is essential to creating “legitimacy” for despots like Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong Un; if political opponents have no voice, people will assume they don’t exist.

We’re not there yet, but we’re on our way.

Over the past several decades, our schools have become incubators for the progressive Left. Liberal professors have taught millennials and younger generations that our country was founded on a lie and that our free enterprise system is “rigged”; just as damaging, they have ignored the great achievements of this nation – achievements like the liberation of Europe from Nazism that we used to celebrate.

This is not new, but now another, more alarming, trend has emerged.

More destructive than the liberal curriculums of our schools has been the growing intolerance on campuses, and the tendency to put the kids in charge. As Robert Zimmer, the president of the University of Chicago, wrote in 2016:

“Invited speakers are disinvited because a segment of a university community deems them offensive…. Demands are made to eliminate readings that might make some students uncomfortable. Individuals are forced to apologize for expressing views that conflict with prevailing perceptions.”

Most disturbing, as he points out: “In many cases, these efforts have been supported by university administrators.”

A poll in 2018 showed that a majority of students (56 percent) supported freedom of speech, but shockingly also said that “promoting a diverse and inclusive society” was more important than the First Amendment. Imagine.
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This is liberal fascism run amok.  It is the opposite of the free speech movement that was on campuses in the 1960s.  It is antithetical to the First Amendment.