Interesting claim. I remember freedom fries and cancelling Dixie chicks as the first salvoes in that tit for tat. Or John Lennon and sinead O’Connor before that or Mohammed Ali…
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I didn’t find him funny or entertaining, but it’s obscene that the FCC is threatening media companies over anodyne statements by unfunny comedians.
I remember late night TV saying worse things about Reagan, Bush and Clinton. They probably laughed at it.
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Sure, there was an ocean of late-night hosts calling for consequences against incendiary comments by prominent left-leaning people for the past couple of decades.
Regardless what one believes about the balance or imbalance of where consequences for expression of belief have been landing, it is a fact that people against these consequences have been complaining without effect for years. Over time, some give up and move to the old standby: tit-for-tat. And then people call for something less than tit-for-tat to be tried again. If it didn't work before, why would it work now?
Regardless what one believes about the balance or imbalance of where consequences for expression of belief have been landing, it is a fact that people against these consequences have been complaining without effect for years. Over time, some give up and move to the old standby: tit-for-tat. And then people call for something less than tit-for-tat to be tried again. If it didn't work before, why would it work now?
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