I’m shocked and horrified at the people who up until two seconds ago supported free speech and opposed cancellation and have now gone completely in the opposite direction, calling for the persecution, firings and cancellation of the people who made pro-Hamas statements.
People, what are you doing? In the name of everything reasonable, what the flying fuck are you doing? If your psychological discomfort and feelings of being “unsafe” justify the persecution of others, then why isn’t a persecution of you justified? Surely, it’s not hard to find somebody wounded and made unsafe by something you once said.
What are you doing, people? You want to hound somebody as part of a morally outraged mob? You want to support and grow cancel culture? As long as you get to do the cancellation, it’s all good?
For shame. For absolute crying shame.
And those who say “liberals should have a taste of their own medicine now that cancel culture has turned against them” need to remember this moment well. For an extraordinarily important chance to feel momentarily smug on social media, they have given away every argument in favor of free speech. An actual moral advantage has been pissed away to cosplay an angry, self-righteous wokester for three minutes. What an achievement.
Imagine a woman who spends many years fighting against abortion. Organizes political campaigns, goes to clinics. But then an inconvenient pregnancy sends her right to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. “Well,” she says. “I’m not the one who made abortion possible. This is on the libs. I’m just living in the world they made.”
Everybody should say whatever they want. Everybody. Even the people I don’t like. Even the Russian propagandists. Nobody should be coerced into being silent. Freedom of speech only exists if it extends to everybody, not only the people I agree with.
You either have foundational principles or you don’t. Otherwise, you are a wokester who’s been unsuccessful at imposing your wokeness until now.
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