Indeed. All the think-pieces last year about how the youth at colleges and NGO’s were ruining things with their demands for leftist ideological purity left unmentioned that the ACLU was still defending white supremacists’ free speech at a time when no similar “defending enemies on principle” existed any more on the right; and the leftist…
Indeed. All the think-pieces last year about how the youth at colleges and NGO’s were ruining things with their demands for leftist ideological purity left unmentioned that the ACLU was still defending white supremacists’ free speech at a time when no similar “defending enemies on principle” existed any more on the right; and the leftists frequently brought that sort of thing up, presenting themselves as a necessary counterweight.
I mention it not to defend them or applaud their tactics, but to put them into context. If my entire political life had been dominated by that asymmetry and my elders seemed to refuse to believe it even existed, I might decide to “go symmetric” in the other direction, too.
Whenever someone complained about there being too many new minority heroes in comic books, I point out that the Comics Code, an industry-wide regulation voluntarily adhered to by everyone except EC Comics banned black protagonists. No one has ever or will ever ban white protagonists.
Now, of course, they're willing these days to explicitly call for resegregation rather than just grumble about how political correctness means that Ted Kord is being supplanted by Jamie Reyes in the Great Replacement.
Indeed. All the think-pieces last year about how the youth at colleges and NGO’s were ruining things with their demands for leftist ideological purity left unmentioned that the ACLU was still defending white supremacists’ free speech at a time when no similar “defending enemies on principle” existed any more on the right; and the leftists frequently brought that sort of thing up, presenting themselves as a necessary counterweight.
I mention it not to defend them or applaud their tactics, but to put them into context. If my entire political life had been dominated by that asymmetry and my elders seemed to refuse to believe it even existed, I might decide to “go symmetric” in the other direction, too.
Whenever someone complained about there being too many new minority heroes in comic books, I point out that the Comics Code, an industry-wide regulation voluntarily adhered to by everyone except EC Comics banned black protagonists. No one has ever or will ever ban white protagonists.
Now, of course, they're willing these days to explicitly call for resegregation rather than just grumble about how political correctness means that Ted Kord is being supplanted by Jamie Reyes in the Great Replacement.