> Would I lock someone up for "something just slightly racist"? I mean, if you don't have protected free speech, you have regulated speech. If you can't say "

> Would I lock someone up for "something just slightly racist"? I mean, if you don't have protected free speech, you have regulated speech. If you can't say "I believe in X because .... " where X might be racism, then it's no longer freedom, and therefore subject to potential criminal legislation. See John Adams and the sedition act. > But when people yell "cancel culture" in a crowded online letter... Bari Weiss made it clear it was the anger from the Tom Cotton essay where she felt her career at the times became untenable. When did we decide that an essay by Tom Cotton was too dangerous to be published? That his speech was so dangerous that the core ideas could not just have been countered with... wait for it... more speech. And no one said that freedom of speech never meant freedom of jobs. Nor did freedom of speech ever mean that people would buy your product after your ugly ideas came to light. So what is cancel culture? It's this. Specifically this article: https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2019/9/25/20883697/cancel-culture-has-it-gone-too-far-carson-king-outrage-twitter https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2019/9/25/20883697/cancel-cu...