Social Unrest, & The Free Speech Movement vs Cancel
Culture In the United States
Fire-bombing of the Federal Courthouse Building in Portland OR., July 2020 and
January 2021
2.
Portland Protesters Set a
Police Building on Fire, July 19, 2020 - video
3.
Attack on Portland Federal
Courthouse, July 2020 - video
4.
Violent Attacks, arson by Anarchist
Groups in Portland, Aug., 2020 – video
What Is The “Cancel Culture” Movement ? How
Is It Different Than The “Free Speech” Movement ?
The Free Speech Movement was the first mass act of civil
disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s. Students insisted that
the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities
and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom.
Today, in 2020, the opposite is true. Increasingly, students on
campuses are engaged in “shout-downs”, with the goal shutting down communication that does not agree with their views and methods. This is the
opposite of the “Free Speech” campus movements of the 1960s.
Background, 1960s free speech movement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. – Interview (video clip) on
non-violence and non-violent protesting
Speech on
Civil Freedoms by Supreme Court Judge Samuel Alito – Nov. 2020
What Circumstances Lead To Creating The “Cancel Culture” and Free-Speech “Shout-Downs”
Movements ?
Example #1 Free Speech
and Cancel Culture – Background
Prof. Charles Murray, co-author of “The Bell-Curve”, - Middlebury
College – Shut-down of Speech and Attack by Students
Q&A on C-Span with Prof. Allison Stanger
Professor Allison Stanger talked about the reaction of Middlebury
College students to author Charles Murray appearing on campus in March 2017 on
C-Span. Mr. Murray and Professor Stanger were physically attacked following the
event. She discusses the susceptibility of students (and others) to not
exercise sufficient critical-thinking with
unfamiliar issues often resulting in a default move to
ideology.
Professor Allison Stanger on the Charles Murray
Event - Video - 4
min.
Professor Allison Stanger, C-Span, Video Clip #2 – 60
min.
Prof.
Bret Weinstein on “Cancel Culture” and the “Woke” movement.
Prof. Bret
Weinstein – Interview, Cancel Culture, Campus Unrest, Social Unrest
Are These Protests Just Isolated Incidents ? Is there over-lapping of this into the greater
society and the corporate environment ?
Example #2 – Videos - Cancel Culture – Campus & Public Spaces
Anti-Free Speech
What is “cancel culture” and how does it operate -
Video, - Bret Weinstein and author Brendan O”Neill
A look at Antifa, Portland, Seattle – video clip
Journalist Andy Ngo to discusses the Antifa protest
violence in downtown Portland, in June, 2019.
Yale
University Shout-Down Concerning Halloween Costumes
Seattle
Protest Coverage – video 4 min.
Martin Luther King Jr, speech, Loving Your Enemies – video - 9
min.
The Case of
Free Speech in Skokie, Il, 1970s – video – 4 min.
What are Some Examples of Opposing Free
Speech, Science-based Data and Public Free Expression ?
Example 3 - The “Red-Pilling” of J.K. Rowling
– Attempts to Make non-scientific terminology legally compulsory / true.
J.K. Rowling “controversial” quote
– “Biological sex (gender) is real, and it's not bigoted to say it. In
fact, quite the reverse is true”.
2. The difference between gender and sex –
video 9 min.