I'm waiting for one of these settler writers to acknowledge that those who say that cultural appropriation is free speech are full of it.  Robert Jago put is best in an essay in the Walrus when he said "But free speech means freedom from government interference, not freedom from criticism. Few people know more about government interference in the exercise of free speech than Indigenous activists who have been tracked, monitored, and interrogated by Canadian security and intelligence agencies. An online backlash to a rude and offensive editorial is not a threat to free speech, it’s an example of free speech."

Bingo.  Settlers like robert whyte and christie blatchford are quick to criticize the backlash without bothering to think that the backlash is the very freedom of speech being exercised that they say is being quashed!

No, what these settlers are really saying is that freedom of speech is only for white people, and only relevant when done by white people.