{"id":1261293,"date":"2022-02-01T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1261293"},"modified":"2022-02-01T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:07:30","slug":"survey-majority-of-americans-view-cancel-culture-as-threat-to-democracy-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survey-majority-of-americans-view-cancel-culture-as-threat-to-democracy-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Majority of Americans View Cancel Culture as &#039;Threat to Democracy, Freedom&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsurvey-majority-of-americans-view-cancel-culture-as-threat-to-democracy-freedom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1261293&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/free-speech-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Nearly 60 percent of Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/fire-and-devito-verdi-2022-national-free-speech-and-cancel-culture-survey\/\">believe<\/a> there is \u201ca growing cancel culture that is a threat to our freedom,\u201d according to a survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).<\/p>\n<p>More than 74 percent of Republicans \u201cstrongly\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d agree the republic is threatened by cancel culture, whereas over 60 percent of independents feel the same. Nearly 45 percent of Democrats agreed as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>One effect of cancel culture, according to the survey, is an increased tendency for persons to take self-censorship measures, with nearly 25 percent responding that they \u201cfairly often\u201d or \u201cvery often\u201d do not voice their own opinions for fear of losing their job or their \u201cstandings in school.\u201d Nearly half of respondents (47 percent) reported being at least occasionally \u201cafraid to say what [they] believe\u201d out of fear of potential consequences. Eight percent said they \u201coften feel pressure to say things they don\u2019t believe \u2018in order to fit in.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FIRE survey also found strong support for protecting \u201call viewpoints \u2026 even those considered extreme,\u201d showing 62 percent overall support. When broken down along partisan lines, more than 73 percent of Republicans believe in the free speech protections, and 62 percent of independents agree. More than 54 percent of Democrats also agree.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, 57 percent of Americans believe the First Amendment protects \u201chate speech,\u201d with 59 percent, 57 percent, and 54 percent of Republicans, independents, and Democrats agreeing, respectively. Despite this, only 38 percent of Americans believe that the fundamental right \u201cshould\u201d protect \u201chate speech,\u201d including a minority of Republicans (47 percent).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sixty-three percent of Americans, however, either \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cstrongly\u201d agreed with the statement: \u201cLaws protecting free speech aren\u2019t enough. The American people have to celebrate and nurture free speech for it to be fully protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancel culture isn\u2019t just about what gets said and then punished,\u201d FIRE Vice President of Communications Nico Perrino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/national-fire-survey-cancel-culture-widely-viewed-as-threat-to-democracy-freedom\/\">said<\/a> in a press release. \u201cIt\u2019s also about what never gets said for fear of punishment.&nbsp;The chilling effect of self-censorship is real \u2014&nbsp;and can have an alarming effect on how Americans communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 83 percent of Americans believe that democracy can only thrive if there is free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted among 2,500 American adults by the research arm of FIRE\u2019s communications partner, DeVito\/Verdi.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 60 percent of Americans believe there is \u201ca growing cancel culture that is a threat to our freedom,\u201d according to a survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}