Opinion: Don’t let the woke restrict the arts
In the past year, many artists got de-platformed, fired or canceled on social media because of the content of their work. Dave Chappelle, John Cleese, Gina Carano are some of the names that come to mind.
Of course, everyone has the right to criticize artistic expression that they don’t like. However, in the marketplace of arts, the artists are empowered with freedom of artistic expression, even when their work is offensive, insulting, outrageous or even objectively ugly. As I.J. Oosthuizen and C.J. Russo write in the South African Journal of Education, “[freedom of artistic expression] is a small price to pay for the liberty and diversity that form the foundation of a free society.
Yet it almost feels like this freedom is threatened daily by the censorship fueled by the ideologically woke cancel culture. This minority doesn’t just want to criticize art they disagree with, it wants to limit the content that the majority may want to engage with.
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