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This is not a sneer so much as a sneer request; anyone know of any good articles written about the total hypocrisy of the Free Speech brigade since the inauguration? By far the most anti-speech environment in decades and most of them are still just whining about pronouns on campus or whatever.
(Yes; FIRE has passed this very basic test and has occasionally switched topics from whining about "leftist professors" to saying stuff like "it's not great that we're deporting people for writing articles for their school paper about how genocide is bad". Literally everyone else is a hypocrite)
Biggest examples I know of is Shaun's 4-hour review of the "War on Science" book, and the backlash to the Riyadh Comedy Festival (the whole drama here was hilarious, and not because of the comedy).
Here's a written review of that book which covers its problems fairly well, I think. (Which indirectly reminded me that last year I wrote a blog post about how Sokal and Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense wasn't such hot stuff. I guess I hadn't shared that here before.)
I also found this Reddit comment that lays into Sokal and Bricmont's treatment of Lacan, but not having read Lacan, I can't vouch for it:
https://old.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/rsbx6e/are_there_any_contemporary_thinkers_who_are/hqnelw7/
I'll just note the sneerability of how Sokal contributed to sex pest Krauss' War on Science book, right alongside Jordan Peterson, who has said plenty of things as batshit as Sokal accused Lacan of being.
TechDirt has posts about this quite often.