How free speech works: You are free to make racist or antisemitic statements as you choose. Your corporate sponsors are free to cut you loose - because you are hazard to the brand.
People who cast themselves as martyrs to “censorship” often believe wrongly - and absurdly - that free speech equals the right to say anything one chooses without consequence.
@BrentNYT @MollyJongFast Technically they could also cut ties on principle... although apparently @adidas ain't about that.
@BrentNYT “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
@BrentNYT so my Nevercensor shower caps will hit the shelves soon..
@BrentNYT @MollyJongFast Shunning, an ancient practice by the powerful to conform social behavior, was often a form of social death. Contemporary shunning is largely economic boycotting, and partial rather than total. Moreover, it offers the politically powerless a voice. No one is cancelled.