> This is how soft totalitarianism works: no gulags, no jail time, just being excluded from the marketplace. Are we supposed to take this rhetoric seriously? T

> This is how soft totalitarianism works: no gulags, no jail time, just being excluded from the marketplace. Are we supposed to take this rhetoric seriously? The marketplace IS excluding certain types of expression, this is true. In fact it's American conservatives who, for the past generation, have pushed hard for uncompromising free market solutions to every social problem. Remember the "gay wedding cake" legislation? Congrats! Now societal norms can be defined by the market, instead of by inalienable human rights. And now that the market is saying something conservatives don't like, they tuck tail and change the narrative? I hope they realize how pathetic and cowardly this looks.