Commentary
Americans’ right to think and speak freely has for years been under heavy assault.
The propagators of political correctness slowly but surely chipped away at open discourse, pressuring dissenters from prevailing ruling class orthodoxy to speak in euphemism and self-censor lest they be branded uncouth if not bigoted.
Apparently not content with the results of this “soft power” campaign, illiberals in recent years resorted to more coercive methods to compel ideological conformity, or at minimum, submission.
Speech police entered the scene, deputized under something of a society-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) administrative state fixated on imposing Wokeism, and a mass public-private censorship regime that suppressed unauthorized opinions and their holders at scale….