Ben Domenech: Even When Liberals Aren't Acting Like Fascists, They Totally Want To
The Federalist's Ben Domenech hears the march of liberal jackboots:
Firing Kevin Williamson Is Just the Beginning
When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.
... [Kevin] Williamson is not a figure so prominent nor The Atlantic a brand so ubiquitous as to graduate [his firing] to a national story, in the way that the situations of Brendan Eich at Mozilla or James Damore at Google became national cable news stories. But they really are the same story....
This story is a predictable continuation of the left’s ownership not just of media but indeed of all institutions.... Eich, Damore, Williamson and others are subject to blacklists and HR reports and firing in every arena of industry and culture. If you have wrongthink, you will not be allowed for long to make your living within any space the left has determined they own – first the academy, then the media, then corporate America, and now the public square.