By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


Free-speech: have they learned nothing on Nantucket?

Here we go again. Someone with the wrong views is about to get canceled in Massachusetts. It happened following Charlie Kirk’s murder, as the Globe reports. Now it’s happening on Nantucket, as the Globe also reports. Granted, Maxamillian Dutton’s religious opinions about women are pretty hard to take. But he apparently never brought those subjects up during a motivational speech at Nantucket High School. Doesn’t matter. Someone objected to his previous public statements. So the superintendent of Nantuckets schools is establishing a “new committee to review speaker candidates to ensure ‘that their messaging, both professional and personal, aligns with NPS’s core values, vision, and mission.” … In other words, they’re developing a speech code aligned with the “school’s values of respect, inclusion, and equity.”

Amid the raging debate over free-speech across the county – and the hypocrisies of right-wing woke-ism and left-wing woke-ism – it seems they’ve learned absolutely nothing on Nantucket.

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