This is ahistorical. It wasn't the far right, it was everybody from the far right to the center left, and they didn't just censor porn and naughty words, they censored socialism, realistic depictions of slavery, descriptions of history that weren't hagiographies of slaveholders, all details of the red scare, accurate depictions of our wars, among a billion other things.
The ACLU has gone to shit, but that's because all institutions go to shit.
> Journalists now regularly host intelligence community propagandists
I hate to sound like a broken record, but "now"? I just don't know what media you watched that didn't do this. Maybe pick up a used copy of any Bagdikian from the 80s/90s? Or Project Censored?
I feel like young people who grew up on the internet, saying whatever the fuck they wanted because the tendrils of capital and the state hadn't figured out how to stop them yet, have no awareness of the very recent past. And it somehow turned them all into John Birchers.
The reason corporations are woke now is because right-wingers, centrists and apolitical pseudo-libertarians are going to vote in their interests no matter what happens. The only people who potentially oppose them are also woke, so the effective thing is to focus on getting as many of them as possible to ignore everything but racism/sexism/homophobia, which profits couldn't give half a shit about, instead of focusing on our kleptocracy, which is a necessity for profits.
I understand that the situation is oppressive, and violates your sense of justice and your basic ideals of an open society. Society has never been a spherical cow, it's been a production system sitting on the backs of women, minorities, and wage laborers. If you only notice the suppression of speech when it's largely aimed at scientific racism, men's rights activists, and people fighting for the right to spread disease, that says something about you: maybe not that you're a bad person, but that you're a young person, or a sheltered person, or that you've been inattentive to the world until it encroached on your ability to complain about affirmative action or accuse China of being an ancient evil enemy trying to kill us all.
Other people are trying to pay their rent and eat. You might have trouble trying to pay your rent and eat. But if so, name a single thing that woke fascism is keeping you from saying that's materially important to your life?
All I can say is: First they came for the Palestinians... then they continued to come for the Palestinians while white dudes were protesting for the right to say that women naturally hate math.
The ACLU has gone to shit, but that's because all institutions go to shit.
> Journalists now regularly host intelligence community propagandists
I hate to sound like a broken record, but "now"? I just don't know what media you watched that didn't do this. Maybe pick up a used copy of any Bagdikian from the 80s/90s? Or Project Censored?
I feel like young people who grew up on the internet, saying whatever the fuck they wanted because the tendrils of capital and the state hadn't figured out how to stop them yet, have no awareness of the very recent past. And it somehow turned them all into John Birchers.
The reason corporations are woke now is because right-wingers, centrists and apolitical pseudo-libertarians are going to vote in their interests no matter what happens. The only people who potentially oppose them are also woke, so the effective thing is to focus on getting as many of them as possible to ignore everything but racism/sexism/homophobia, which profits couldn't give half a shit about, instead of focusing on our kleptocracy, which is a necessity for profits.
I understand that the situation is oppressive, and violates your sense of justice and your basic ideals of an open society. Society has never been a spherical cow, it's been a production system sitting on the backs of women, minorities, and wage laborers. If you only notice the suppression of speech when it's largely aimed at scientific racism, men's rights activists, and people fighting for the right to spread disease, that says something about you: maybe not that you're a bad person, but that you're a young person, or a sheltered person, or that you've been inattentive to the world until it encroached on your ability to complain about affirmative action or accuse China of being an ancient evil enemy trying to kill us all.
Other people are trying to pay their rent and eat. You might have trouble trying to pay your rent and eat. But if so, name a single thing that woke fascism is keeping you from saying that's materially important to your life?
All I can say is: First they came for the Palestinians... then they continued to come for the Palestinians while white dudes were protesting for the right to say that women naturally hate math.