How “Balance” Has Come to Mean “More Conservative”

Joshua Adams
4 min readJun 17, 2021

There has been an ongoing public discourse over things like cancel culture, political correctness, wokeness, critical race theory, etc. Both sides of the political spectrum see the other as using bad faith attacks to control the bounds of rational debate and push the other out of the public square.

Many of these discourses (at least to the extent that they originate from the…

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Joshua Adams

Joshua Adams is a writer from Chicago. UVA & USC. Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago. Twitter: @ProfJoshuaA