Free Speech and Tolerance

Okay... questionable assertion that America is the greatest country in the world aside, I don't believe this qualifies as hypocrisy.

It's one thing to observe something as questionable to one's political or moral tastes and choose to no longer patronize that material with viewership.
It's another thing completely to solicit others in inciting a wide-scale boycott to deprive a program or person of their profession and platform. To the best of my knowledge, the latter is a strategy much more often used by those on the left.

For example, I don't particularly care for Ezra Klein's political positions, and I won't be supporting his podcast anytime soon, but I would not support a widespread boycott of his sponsors to deprive him of his opinion, even though I might consider his ideas to be potentially harmful. This is the kind of attitude I think is more prevalent on the liberal right. As far as I can tell, the key distinction between it and the methods of the left is a faith in open-discussion of ideas, even bad ones, rather than group-effort to minimize the voice of those one disagrees with, which again, would be the distinction between the two situations raised above.

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