Listen to the mainstream media, and you’ll hear that conservatives, once stalwart opponents to censorship, are now themselves the censors.
“Is the right embracing cancel culture after the Charlie Kirk assassination?” Newsweek asks.
Poppycock.
No one has ever argued that expression should never face consequence of any kind.
Were I tomorrow to openly insult my boss and pen a column praising the finer points of “Mein Kampf,” my employer would be well within its right to show me the door.
If a pastor of a Christian church espoused atheism, the elder board would be wise to keep him from preaching.
In this case, if a teacher celebrates the murder of a father, it’s only normal that parents might email their principal requesting action.
The issue with left-wing crusades for cancellation over the previous decade isn’t that individuals faced social consequences for their speech but that the speech itself comprised innocuous opinions or inconvenient facts.
Examples abound of individuals facing professional sanction for the most trivial of expression.
Analyst David Shor lost his job for noting data that found riots actually helped the right.
A professor had to pack up his office for teaching the proper pronunciation of a Chinese word that sounded like an English slur.
Hellbound and Down 