Noam Chomsky: Corporations, not leftist academics, enforce politically correct limits on speech

[DonViejo]

Noam Chomsky said corporations, not the government or leftist scolds, pose the greatest threat to freedom of expression in the United States.

The linguist and political scientist disagreed with Ezra Levant, the Canadian conservative host of The Rebel, that the American left had abandoned its free speech ideals of the 1960s and 1970s.

“The struggle for free speech in the 60s and 70s was an effort to break through constraints against what could be articulated and what people could hear,” Chomsky said.

He disagreed strongly with Levant’s suggestion that leftists who protested free speech limits outside the dean’s office in the 1960s enforced politically correct speech codes now that they ran universities.

“I don’t think that’s true at all,” Chomsky said. “The constraints on breaking through to the public are greater than they were, or at least comparable, to what they were in the 60s.”

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1. Noam is right - try getting a job if you've published under your real name, for instance.

Most big corporations and law firms will not hire dissidents and authors of "controversial" political materials. The Internet has made it easy for companies to screen applicants for ideological correctness.