{"id":12332,"date":"2023-12-03T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12332"},"modified":"2023-12-03T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T15:25:10","slug":"it-feels-like-the-new-mccarthyism-how-the-israel-hamas-war-is-redefining-the-limits-of-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12332","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Feels Like the New McCarthyism\u2019: How the Israel-Hamas War Is Redefining the Limits of Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“So far, most of the firings appear to have been for expressing pro-Palestinian views \u2014 the U.S.-based advocacy organization Palestine Legal reports that they\u2019ve responded to over 260 cases<\/a> of people\u2019s \u201clivelihoods or careers\u201d being targeted. But the fact that these firings have been due in large part to social media posts and the widespread broadcasting of personal political beliefs means that the trend may not stay on one issue or one side of a dispute for long; Lakier says that we are watching the relationship between free expression and employment shift in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, regulations concerning speech and private employment oscillate wildly from state to state \u2014 about half of states have no protections for private employees who express political beliefs, while others have laws that vary in terms of scope. Many of the employment laws that do exist find their roots in the 19th century and are little use in navigating the 21st century workplace. Meanwhile, ideas about protected speech are constantly shifting in the culture: After 9\/11, for example, the war on terror brought with it new examinations into what kind of speech promulgates terrorism. More recently, debates over \u201ccancel culture\u201d on campuses and in the workplace have brought up similar questions of what speech is permissible \u2014 and when consequences are justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe First Amendment has always had exceptions, but those exceptions can expand under pressure,\u201d Lakier told me. Since the Israel-Hamas war began, \u201cpeople are interpreting the category of hate speech or the incitement of violent speech very, very broadly to include speech that in my view is totally legitimate, often pro-peace speech.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/11\/04\/israel-hamas-cease-fire-free-speech-00125333<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“So far, most of the firings appear to have been for expressing pro-Palestinian views \u2014 the U.S.-based advocacy organization Palestine Legal reports that they\u2019ve responded to over 260 cases of people\u2019s \u201clivelihoods or careers\u201d being targeted. But the fact that these firings have been due in large part to social media posts and the widespread broadcasting of personal political beliefs means that the trend may not stay on one issue or one side of a dispute for long; Lakier says that we are watching the relationship between free expression and employment shift in real time.
\nCurrently, regulations concerning speech and private employment oscillate wildly from state to state \u2014 about half of states have no protections for private employees who express political beliefs, while others have laws that vary in terms of scope. Many of the employment laws that do exist find their roots in the 19th century and are little use in navigating the 21st century workplace. Meanwhile, ideas about protected speech are constantly shifting in the culture: After 9\/11, for example, the war on terror brought with it new examinations into what kind of speech promulgates terrorism. More recently, debates over \u201ccancel culture\u201d on campuses and in the workplace have brought up similar questions of what speech is permissible \u2014 and when consequences are justified.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe First Amendment has always had exceptions, but those exceptions can expand under pressure,\u201d Lakier told me. Since the Israel-Hamas war began, \u201cpeople are interpreting the category of hate speech or the incitement of violent speech very, very broadly to include speech that in my view is totally legitimate, often pro-peace speech.\u201d”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/11\/04\/israel-hamas-cease-fire-free-speech-00125333<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,875,848,1301,194,391,389,1584,108,115,158],"class_list":["post-12332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-speech","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12333,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332\/revisions\/12333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}