Women,people of color and politicians standing up to racism and sexism are threatened every day. But the legal rarely seems concerned approximately thatListening to talking heads on both the left and the legal, you’d believe that America is facing a freedom of speech crisis. But the crisis isn’t what it’s made out to be. The Jonathan Chaits and Frank Brunis and Sean Hannitys of the world are not lacking in a freedom to speak, and nor are the white conservatives on college campuses they seem so worried approximately. It’s women and people of color who struggle the most finding a platform – but there is a conspicuous lack of concern approximately that by free speech crusaders.
When Bill O’Reilly and the late Roger Ailes were paid tens of millions of dollars for stepping down from their jobs – far more than the settlements that the women they were accused of sexually harassing received – they weren’t being silenced. And Bill Maher getting deserved blowback for saying house nigga” doesn’t make him struggle to speak freely.
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Source: theguardian.com