While it is true that what is good for the goose is good for the gander, some things are good for neither.
A case in point is the new conservative attempt to use the power of government to punish the speech of people we find intolerably offensive. I wrote not too long ago about a bill that would establish outside monitors for schools that have an antisemitism problem, threatening the withdrawal of federal funds if the schools didn’t do their best to stamp out antisemitism.
It was a bad idea, not because the schools have done a good job dealing with antisemitism, but because it is the government using its coercive power to regulate speech.
Fair points and I also think more and more conservatives are questioning these “lists” as a concept. No transparency or due process. With the FBI being weaponized against Catholics and parents at school board meetings, who’s to say it won’t be…
