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The Conservative Long Game in Higher Ed, Part 9 – Postscript: On the Spectacle of Campus Speakers and Deplatforming – Lessons for Higher Ed Laborers

When I first conceived of this postscript the aim was to consider deplatforming and cancel culture. Once I started writing, however, cancel culture receded into the background. It is too big of a topic. It also involves importing too much present-day language and circumstances into the history I cover. Deplatforming also risks presentism. The term came into the English language relatively recently. It was created well after 1965-70—in 1998, per Merriam-Webster. Even so, it at least fits better conceptually into what happened in the time frame Lauren Lassabe Shepherd covered in Resistance from the Right. Deplatforming applies well enough to Read more