Bret Stephens new column: the biggest threat America faces is not Trump, but cancel culture. So re-upping this thread, with receipts, that shows that Stephens is an absolute on this issue, as he serially tries to get his critics fired. 1/https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1268982440644751362 …
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@davekarpf points out in this excellent thread, Stephens not just excludes speech he dislikes, he instead presents it as an existential threat. There is no deeper principle here than "My speech is good, your speech is cancel culture." 9/https://twitter.com/davekarpf/status/1279438242086039556?s=20 …Show this thread -
How do we understand this? As propaganda. It's not a coincidence that Stephens column and Trump's Rushmore speech from last night are interchangeable in many ways. There is an election to win, pandemics to be ignored, and people to terrify. 10/https://twitter.com/biblioracle/status/1279381761231912962?s=20 …
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I'm sure Orwell would have had something to say about using propaganda to ramp up a culture war to protect an unpopular regime in the midst of a massive state failure in protecting human life. I just think it would be very different from what Stephens is saying. 11/pic.twitter.com/6NRjifXrFn
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