{"id":104341,"date":"2023-06-01T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=104341"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:46:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:46:27","slug":"anti-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/anti-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Free Speech Approach of the Social Justice Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you feel like social justice advocacy has gone too far? Does it seem like you have to constantly watch what you say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors of <em>Cynical Theories<\/em> explain how this came to be. While past movements for equality used to fight for concrete issues, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay claim that contemporary activists and scholars are more concerned with policing language and culture and shutting down rational debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading to learn about the anti-free speech approach of the Social Justice Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-social-justice-movement-rejects-freedom-of-speech\">The Social Justice Movement Rejects Freedom of Speech<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Cynical Theories<\/em>, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay show how the beliefs and methods of the Social Justice Movement are anti-free speech. Let&#8217;s take a look at each argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-anti-free-speech-beliefs\">Anti-Free Speech Beliefs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pluckrose and Lindsay explain that <strong>the Social Justice Movement is anti-free speech because they believe access to knowledge is based on identity\u2014race, gender, and so on\u2014instead of on reason and evidence.<\/strong> According to the Social Justice Movement, people of marginalized identities have more knowledge than everyone else about power and oppression because of their experiences. People from dominant groups lack this knowledge, and so the Social Justice Movement believes these people\u2019s ideas about power, oppression, and social justice should be devalued or dismissed. Pluckrose and Lindsay explain this is anti-free speech since it seeks to restrict or devalue ideas based on who says them rather than on merit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Some critics of the Social Justice Movement have noted how the movement\u2019s beliefs have led to self-censorship, or individuals and institutions restricting their own speech to avoid controversial subjects. In the publishing industry, for example, some companies are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/24\/opinion\/book-banning-censorship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reluctant to publish books where authors aren\u2019t directly discussing their own experiences<\/a> after a number of high-profile protests. In these protests, books are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/06\/books\/amelie-wen-zhao-blood-heir-keira-drake-continent-jonah-winter-secret-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">harshly criticized<\/a> and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/31\/books\/amelie-wen-zhao-blood-heir-ya-author-pulls-debut-accusations-racism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pulled<\/a> before they\u2019re published due to accusations of racism and other types of insensitivity. This shows how even when the beliefs of the Social Justice Movement aren\u2019t passed into law, they can still limit free speech.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-anti-free-speech-methods\">Anti-Free Speech Methods<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pluckrose and Lindsay contend <strong>the Social Justice Movement is anti-free speech in their methods, attempting to police and control people\u2019s language and culture.<\/strong> Since the Social Justice Movement views oppression as the result of cultural narratives, they try to prevent people from enforcing those narratives in their language and culture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In practice, this often means ganging up on people with dissenting ideas. The Social Justice Movement is willing to target anyone, according to the authors, because they believe power is exercised on every level of society\u2014a working-class person making an insensitive joke, an academic writing a paper with ideas contrary to the Social Justice Movement, a celebrity making a controversial work of art, and so on. Targets of these attacks may face real-world consequences, losing jobs, being socially alienated, or even receiving threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In academia, fixed doctrines and cliques are nothing new, with many disciplines attacking or censoring dissenting scholars on all sorts of political or even apolitical questions. Fields as diverse as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/behind-tomorrow-s-telescopes-a-bitter-rivalry-from-yesterday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">astronomy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linguisticsociety.org\/sites\/default\/files\/08_92.1Ackerman.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">linguistics<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Freud-Archives-Review-Books-Classics\/dp\/159017027X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LAWL6XRK7Y5H&amp;keywords=in+the+freud+archives&amp;qid=1684526723&amp;sprefix=in+the+freud+ar%2Caps%2C671&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">psychoanalysis<\/a> all have their own histories of bitter rivalries, personal grudges, attempts to repress controversial ideas, and insider-outsider mentalities. Therefore, the Social Justice Movement\u2019s anti-free speech tendencies could be symptomatic of a <em>larger<\/em> problem within academia instead of something unique to the field.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you feel like social justice advocacy has gone too far? Does it seem like you have to constantly watch what you say? The authors of Cynical Theories explain how this came to be. While past movements for equality used to fight for concrete issues, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay claim that contemporary activists and scholars are more concerned with policing language and culture and shutting down rational debate. 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