In 2017 I didn't see JK Rowling, Noam Chomsky, and the rest of The Letter's signatories defending this man for being persecuted for speech the far left found offensive. We told you defending his speech was defending your own. Now a scant three years later and the mob has arrived for you.

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In 2016 and 2017, you would have found me posting on social media and in various forums about how you can't go around silencing conservatives just because you don't like their opinion. That their freedom to speak is your own. That you shouldn't create weapons of censorship that can be used against you when the people in power change. (A few people agreed, most worried about harming marginalized people. They didn't get it.)

Chomsky probably thought that it was blatantly obvious that this was his perspective. The rest of the left is noticing with alarm that what they thought was basic niceness has become distinctly authoritarian.