The Manufactured Free Speech 'Crisis'
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v12i8.186571Keywords:
Culture wars, political correctness, free speech, right-wing attacks on the academyAbstract
This article situates the contemporary campus free speech ‘crisis’ in Canada within the broader contours of ‘cultural conservatism,’ a strategy initiated by the Right—and funded by the corporate community—in the United States in the 1980s. It examines the current manufactured ‘crisis’ as another iteration of the decades-long anti-political correctness campaign and how conservative organizations have strategically appropriated and weaponized the principle of free expression to marshal cultural anger for what are, ultimately, political and economic aims.
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