Actually, the NYT editorial board has a both sides problem. Equating the left, which fights for civil liberties, with the right, which is banning books and whole groups of people, misunderstands the issue of free speech.
America Has a Free Speech Problem nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opi…
America Has a Free Speech Problem nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opi…
The editorial states that people should be able to express opinions "without being shamed or shunned." That is not what free speech is. It's being able to express a loathesome opinion without being imprisoned for it. You're a newspaper--you should understand the First Amendment.
I mean not to put too fine a point on this but the NYT is part of fundamental case law on free speech, so you would think they would have a better grasp of what it is and know there's a difference between being anti- (left) and banning books (right). Honestly--do better.
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At a time when journalists are under global threat, hundreds are being detained in various countries and Russia literally just made free speech a crime, this is a grave misrepresentation of and skewing of perspective on speech issues in the US and so-called cancel culture.
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