Dave Smith’s Part of the Problem (POTP) podcast is essential viewing, and his recent episode #1306 about Jimmy Kimmel and censorship is one of his very best.
Funny, I didn't perceive Smith's "roller coaster" at all. I think I took him a lot less literally. I agreed with him all the way through and also agreed with you... except where you characterized his points as favoring of a new policy or enforcement framework (which maybe you didn't exactly do... I thought that's what you found objectionable). I took Smith's points as judging after-the-fact whether Kimmel (morally, not legally) deserved everything that happened to him, and I agreed: YES, he did, and more. But I'm not trying to generalize that into a policy. It's more like, he cheered on some goons smashing Alex Berenson et al until they were paraplegics in a wheelchair, but now that the same goons have kicked him in the shins, he is hobbling around asking for sympathy. None from me. Also, I hate goons.
When we become them to win, we’ve lost.
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Funny, I didn't perceive Smith's "roller coaster" at all. I think I took him a lot less literally. I agreed with him all the way through and also agreed with you... except where you characterized his points as favoring of a new policy or enforcement framework (which maybe you didn't exactly do... I thought that's what you found objectionable). I took Smith's points as judging after-the-fact whether Kimmel (morally, not legally) deserved everything that happened to him, and I agreed: YES, he did, and more. But I'm not trying to generalize that into a policy. It's more like, he cheered on some goons smashing Alex Berenson et al until they were paraplegics in a wheelchair, but now that the same goons have kicked him in the shins, he is hobbling around asking for sympathy. None from me. Also, I hate goons.