Hi there,
I was one of cancel culture's first targets and I won't be the last.
As the movement termed "cancel culture" was launching a few years ago, I was already being cancelled by the radical Left.
Speeches I planned to give at DePaul University, Gonzaga University, Cal State Los Angeles, Grand Canyon University, and more were all initially cancelled because these campuses "objected" to my views on matters such as Black Lives Matter, "safe spaces," and free speech.
In a nation that's supposed to value free speech, the open expression of thought, and the debate of different values and viewpoints, I was "cancelled" because I'm an outspoken conservative who would dare speak against leftist viewpoints on college campuses.
There is a growing movement of the Left that says it is incumbent to protect campuses from dissenting ideas. Well, I'm not going to allow conservative students to be kicked off of campuses like I have been.
Colleges and universities are continually cancelling conservative speech and enforcing restrictive "speech codes" that punish students who don't hold Leftist views of the world.
It's time that we join together as a collective free speech movement — led by Speech First, who has a record of winning lawsuits against universities that target free speech — to protect freedom of speech on college campuses.
Let's save speech,
Ben Shapiro
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Laguna Woods, CA 92637
United States
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