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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.
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This is pretty much a tacit admission that my last line about the worst people in this mess hit a little to close to home for you.
But I have no interest in fighting with you about whether you're fine with illiberal behavior that suits ends you like, or whether I'm fine with conservative behavior. My only cheap point was to say "I told you so" to you. And as more on the right copy DeSantis, I'll say it more often.
But unlike you, who'll remain dormant when voices you don't like are targeted, I am close to absolutist. I've defended the left when they're cancelled. And I'm calling what DeSantis is doing what it is: Cancel Culture. You prefer to dissemble and change the focus, pretending it doesn't exist. If what DeSantis did isn't cancellation of a sort, what is?
Or are you now going to make the argument that what DeSantis is doing is cancel culture, but what's been done by the left wasn't?
It's your own knot in which you're tied. You figure it out.
