“Getting fired for a headline that says ‘buildings matter too’ is like a scene from George Orwell‘s ‘Animal Farm.’
“The issue here is not about the assertion that racism is endemic in the United States. The issue is the willingness by many to displace [our former] system of free argument with a system of enforced opinion and censorship. Right now we’re at a stage in which writers and media personalities participate in the enforcement effort.” — from “Democracy Dies in Darkness, but Don’t Blame Trump,” a Wall Street Journal piece by Gerard Baker (7.13.20).