OPINION: Cancel culture keeps targeting Amy Coney Barrett. Now it's an absurd call to ban her book
. Barrett has been the singled out in the past due to her judicial philosophy . Her home has been targeted and activists have published school information on her young children.from the college because they disagree with her views.
Her college sorority was even forced to apologize for simply congratulating her for being one of a handful of women to be nominated to the high court.Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021.
No attack appears to be beyond the pale for media or the left. Barrett sat through days of such baseless attacks on her character and even had to face attacks referencing her children. claimed that her adoption of two Haitian children raised the image of a"white colonizer" and suggested that the children were little more than props for their mother.
The most striking aspects of these protests is the insistence that these individuals are still faithful to free speech as they seek to silence those with opposing views. The signatories express a common righteous rage to justify censoring others. We have seen this hypocrisy openly displayed by those who want to censor authors or journalists in the name of free speech or the free press.
The editors of the legal site Above the Law have repeatedly swatted down objections to the loss of free speech and viewpoint diversity in the media and academia.In a recent column, they mocked those of us who objected to the virtual absence of conservative or libertarian faculty members at
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