Thread by @JohnQuiggin

Facts don't care about your ideology, OR, rightwing cancel culture. Rereading @jerry_jtaylor on ideology as motivated cognition
niskanencenter.org/the-alternativ…

This problem extended beyond the realm of climate change ... libertarian friends and colleagues were engaged in fierce, uncompromising debate about empirical matters that had nothing to do with libertarian principles or commitments. Is the Keynesian multiplier consequential?

Is Thomas Piketty correct that r>g? Do tax cuts pay for themselves? A libertarian could take either side of those disputes without having to recant any of their principles . But to cross the party line on these or an ocean of similar empirical matters was to risk unemployment.

The same problems arise on the left, and cancellation is to some extent inevitable and justifiable - no environmental group is going to keep a climate denier on staff, for example. But the flow of refugees from cancellation seems mostly to go from right to left these days.