For the Record: Double Standard

"The Affair", 1875, via The Lighthouse.

Oh, for heaven's sake, in the first place it's not about "corporate speech" as such. They're not telling BP what to say, or Morgan Chase. It's about mediated speech, and media corporations, and censoring them (typically on behalf of children) is always on the conservative menu.

— НЕТ ВОЙНЕ (@Yastreblyansky) April 13, 2022

corporations, like Disney, PRODUCING or at least trying to produce antiracist or sex-positive speech. Conservatives are reacting (as usual, that's what "reactionary" means) to a threat that wasn't there before, and trying to suppress it, as usual.

— НЕТ ВОЙНЕ (@Yastreblyansky) April 13, 2022

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Conservatism begins with the division of the population into good people, "us," and bad people, "them", and libertarianism is for the former and values enforcement for the latter. MY speech must not be suppressed, but THEIRS has to be, for the children's sake.

— НЕТ ВОЙНЕ (@Yastreblyansky) April 13, 2022

And of course "good" people are variously proprietors as opposed to renters, or investors as opposed to laborers, or married folks as opposed to disorderly cohabitors, or "Judeo-Christians" as opposed to scandalous unbelievers, or supporters vs. opponents of patriarchal social organization, or more often than not white people as opposed to dark, depending on what part of the coalition you're trying to rile up. That's pretty much the whole story.