Weasel zippers reports some tweets:
Now, not only can free speech get you fired, supporting, people’s right to free speech behind closed doors with the blinds drawn, while piously deploring what they say, can get you fired.
Observe that Josh Olin did not take the horribly extreme ultra ultra far right neo nazi position that people have a right to free speech in public.
Can anyone remember a time when anyone was so ultra extreme far right as to support free speech in public? I am sure that not only did I never support such a horrible thing, but my parents and grandparents and great grandparents never supported it either.
Everyone who was born before 1956 remembers a time when there was no such thing as marital rape, when the idea that there was something wrong with a husband compelling his wife to perform her marital duties was so strange that there was no easy way to say such a thing and be understood. And yet, no one remembers ever thinking such a thing, nor the people of the time thinking such a thing. The past is always changing, only the future is certain.
For a long time, esr has entirely forgotten that once upon a time, he, his entire family, and everyone he knew, took a husband’s right to compel his wife to perform her marital duties entirely for granted. Now, it seems, he has entirely forgotten that once upon a time he supported not only the right to freedom of speech behind closed doors with the curtains drawn, but, gasp, horror, free speech in public, a position so extreme right wing that no one has words to express how horribly right wing it is. Freedom of speech is now bullying, just as the marital contract is now rape. All right thinking people agree on this, and they always have.