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I really hate this genre of tweet because its purpose is to create cynicism about people who actually defend free speech. And this is a particularly funny example. Did Mehdi actually read the report? The ACLU/Amnesty report repeatedly cites my organization, @TheFIREorg, and credits us for defending pro-Palestinian students, professors, and protesters. It cites our work involving Tulane, Brandeis, the University of Florida, Texas Tech, Penn, and our First Amendment briefs in major litigation. We were involved with practically all of the incidents in someway. And FIRE is hardly alone. @CatoInstitute, @EFF, @PENamerica, Knight, @NCAC, the @rcfp, @Rutherford_Inst, the First Amendment Lawyers Association, and others have been fighting these battles too. So where are the “free speech warriors”? They’re in the report. They’re in the footnotes. They’re writing the letters and filing the briefs. And on cancel culture, Mehdi has actually acknowledged that people sometimes get wrongly fired and self-censor. Where we disagreed was that he dismissed concern about left-wing cancel culture as largely a “moral panic,” while correctly pointing out that there was also a serious threat from the right. The left-wing “moral panic” claim was partisan nonsense. The evidence of cancellation from the left was overwhelming. But the threat from the right was real too. If you actually care about free speech, the answer is not to pick your preferred censor. It is to stand up to both. We did. @RIKKISCHLOTT and I wrote an entire book about it, The Canceling of the American Mind. We took on cancel culture from the left AND the right: amazon.com/dp/1668019140