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worry that the use of censorship is only available to people in power.

And you always have to worry about what censorship will do to the people out of power,

which includes almost invariably in a two-party system you in the future.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Today I want to use this little spiel I always do at the beginning of a

podcast to argue for a very simple principle. When you think about politics you need to be

guided by your own values, by your own principles, not by what you might say or what you might care about fits into the current

narrative. I want to give two examples of this, one perhaps a little bit

more trivial and one rather more important. The first is that it is often the case that terms which people use are appropriated by bad actors.

But criticisms you might make are also echoed by people with whom you disagree.

And in the phrase of what Emily Joffi has quote in conversation with me 180ism, the tendency then is to take the opposite position.

So if Donald Trump goes on about how bad Antifa is, the temptation is to start saying that perhaps actually Antifa is all right.

And when people are using phrases like cancel culture in obvious bad faith.

When Fox News crows about it in inappropriate contexts all of the time,

or Andrew Cuomo says that for him to resign over serious allegations of sexual assault would be to give

into council culture. The temptation is to think that anybody who worries about the

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