Public and scholarly debates surrounding free speech often assume free speech is a public good and/or should be approached as a problem of “drawing the line” between free and regulated or benign and harmful speech. In contrast, this article provides a genealogy of free speech in which liberal freedom of expression has, since its inception, been integral to white supremacist settler colonialism in the United Kingdom and its former settler colonies, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The article argues that, far from a noble struggle against regulation, liberal politics around free speech establish oppositions between white “civilized” speech and its Indigenized racially darkened “others” as well as controlling or silencing Indigenous, Black and/or otherwise racially othered speech across the Anglosphere. The article first traces free speech through two significant moments in its emergence: early European Enlightenment colonial expansion (embodied in John Locke's “toleration”) and 1800s British colonial industrialization (embodied in John Stuart Mill's “marketplace of ideas”). The article then examines how this genealogy informs the contemporary case study of contestation over free speech in universities, showing that engagements with free speech across the political spectrum extend its settler colonial rationality.

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言论自由的定居者殖民地

围绕言论自由的公共和学术辩论通常假设言论自由是一种公共产品和/或应该作为在自由和受监管或良性和有害言论之间“划清界限”的问题来处理。相比之下，本文提供了言论自由的谱系，其中自由言论自由自成立以来一直是英国及其前定居者殖民地美国、加拿大、澳大利亚和新的白人至上主义定居者殖民主义不可或缺的一部分。新西兰。文章认为，围绕言论自由的自由主义政治远非一场反对监管的崇高斗争，而是在白人“文明”言论与其土著化的种族黑暗“其他人”之间建立对立，并控制或压制土著、黑人和/或其他种族歧视言论横跨盎格鲁圈。这篇文章首先通过言论自由出现的两个重要时刻来追溯言论自由：早期欧洲启蒙运动的殖民扩张（体现在约翰洛克的“宽容”中）和 1800 年代英国殖民工业化（体现在约翰斯图亚特米尔的“思想市场”中）。然后，本文研究了这一谱系如何为当代大学言论自由争论的案例研究提供信息，表明跨政治光谱与言论自由的接触扩展了其定居者的殖民理性。