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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Hey Ty, recall when I warned about what cancel culture would look like when perpetrated by the right? That it would be a lot worse than what we’ve seen from the left? That if the left didn’t stop using this silly argument that it doesn’t exist, and actually deal with it, we’d get some really bad use of it by the right?

Well, it appears that when the right wing decides to engage in it, they go to full on censorship: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...clude-critical

I have been critical of critical race theory, but censoring it from curricula is flatly ridiculous. And probably unconstitutional.

This is exactly the loathsome response I predicted, and now you’re going to see every governor of a red state pull the same shit.

The stupidest fucking thing in the world is people who point to bad behavior by the right and pretend that it was somehow caused by someone on the left. Ron DeSantis not give a single shit that a bunch of people got upset about a letter in Harper's magazine, or that Matt Yglesias left Vox to get a Substack, or whatever other travesties of left-wing what's-the-new-term-for-PC about which you have bitched and moaned. Trump conservatives have absolutely zero commitment to the principle of free speech, and their opportunistic desire in censoring lefty speech was not caused or enabled in any way by the left's reaction to anything. The way you implicitly excuse right-wing bullshit by pretending that it was somehow caused by left-wing bullshit is conservative-curious, if not full-on conservative (hating the game here, not the player), and if you wanted to show that you had a neutral commitment to free speech as a principle in itself, you would just bitch and moan about what DeSantis wants to do instead of using that as a pretext to score a cheap and stupid point about the left.