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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You don't, and maybe he'd have done it anyway. But one would think an effort to censor at such a granular level - intended to actually censor, as opposed to scoring political points - would be done quietly, hidden to avoid public scrutiny.
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No, one wouldn't think that. One might have thought that about a different sort of establishment Republican two decades ago.
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But that's not what happened here. Here it was announced to the public. Why? To score political points in the new "You cancel me; I cancel you" game that is American politics.
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No. To score political points with the kind of people who like DeSantis. People who are happy with what he did, regardless of what anyone writes in an open letter in Harper's or what anyone else says in response. Those people aren't playing a political game, and they're not scoring points. That's the way you think about politics.
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UDeSantis is inviting a challenge that may result in a court ruling he cannot engage in such censorship. But he doesn't care. That's not what he wants. What he wants is the public notoriety for having joined the "cancel war" with the biggest cannon of all: State Enforced Censorship.
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No, what he wants is to try to ban speech he doesn't like. No one gives a shit about "joining the 'cancel war'".
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The Biden wing of the party is throwing so much cash around they should be able to hold the House in 2022. But the social justice/cancel-everybody-who-triggers-you wing is like a termite farm eating the planking of what Biden is trying to build. If the Dems lose the House in 2022, you can blame a culture war their crazy left wing decided to ramp up against an enemy far more skilled in that sort of warfare, and utterly nihilistic.
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You certainly "can" blame all sorts of bad things on your own hobby-horse issues -- you're already doing it with what DeSantis has done. Thanks to free speech, no one can stop you. But you'll be utterly, foolishly wrong.
