These are different types of attacks on free speech the same way stubbed toes and decapitations are different types of injuries.

The federal government quelling speech is a very different thing than facing consequences for your speech in a private relationship.

I agree! The definition of an attack on free speech is anything that happens that I don’t like. For example Netflix raising their prices is an attack on free speech. People that have loud conversations on speakerphone in public are attacking free speech. When I’m at a picnic and a wasp lands on my sandwich? That’s not just an attack on free speech, that’s cancel culture. The wasp (government) is literally cancelling me exercising (eating) free speech (my sandwich)

Do you talk this sarcastically to people in real life? It's quite off-putting and gets in the way of conversation.

>It's quite off-putting

I don’t appreciate this attack on my freedom of expression. “Freedom of speech” means saying whatever I want and I am free from anybody forming any negative opinions about me or what I said. Any even perceived undesired consequence for how I express myself is an assault on my first amendment rights

No thanks.

I’m having trouble understanding your reaction here. Free speech dictates that everyone has to like me in the same way that free speech means everybody has to agree with you and tell you that your opinions about pronouns are good and correct.

It seems like we’re in full agreement here. Like the only way I could imagine that we’re at odds is if you just decided unprompted to share your opinions about gender in the Jimmy Kimmel thread and used “free speech”, again completely unprompted, as a shorthand to express your irritation at the fact that there exists some people that don’t agree with you.

That would be pretty silly though. Obviously you were sharing a single example that’s part of a larger and logically consistent definition of free speech (which we agree about), because it would be pretty bad faith to assume that you saw the Jimmy Kimmel thread and thought “Nobody is even discussing my take on pronouns on this page. I’d better get on fixing that”

My reaction is that of becoming bored with your sarcastic responses.

Oh good. I thought you were canceling me. I would hate to be canceled

Do those people ever get tired of all of that pearl-clutching? Being a modern conservative seems exhausting, what with all the faux outrage and constantly shifting fundamental beliefs.

I don’t think people get tired of being rewarded or reassured that they are good and right. I would imagine folks only get tired of pearl clutching these days when they’re just sort of bad at it and go for it without making sure the environment they’re posting in will guarantee a win. That being said, the topic of this thread largely relates to a forcible change in the environment in the US to uniformly guarantee a win and a pat on the head for pearl clutching as a matter of policy.

It is sadly a matter of when not if.