There’s so much happening on the free-speech front that I figured I might as well throw them all into one basket. So here goes. … Re the Peabody teacher who has lost a job over Charlie Kirk online comments: wrong, wrong, wrong. And I don’t even know what was said. … My favorite headline summarizing what’s really going on? Via Ezra Klein at the Times: “Trump Is Building the Blue Scare.” And that’s what this current Conservative Cancel Culture (CCC) wave is ultimately about: demonizing the left to justify current and future crackdowns. I was going to compare current CCC actions to Woodrow Wilson’s infamous backing of the Sedition Act of 1918, but I like the Blue Scare better. … The Globe’s Carine Hajjar continues to impress. … And the Globe’s Joan Vennochi typically impresses, rounding up all the good and bad news of late. … Think I’ve forgotten about PCC (Progressive Cancel Culture)? Nope. And neither has Megan McArdle at the Post, Bret Stephens at the NYT and the WSJ’s editorial board, which, by the way, has been on righteous fire of late. … But right now the real threat is coming from the right. So we’ll end it with Andrew Sullivan’s recent post: “The Woke Right Comes of Age.” And it has.
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