Re the “outrage” over @benshapiro writing for Politico: It’s crazy how proprietary progressives are about these outlets they think ”belong” to them. When I wrote for the Atlantic, an enormous amount of the outrage was about how a pro-life writer got a platform in “their” space.
The subject matter or views we choose to share are essentially irrelevant. Critics entirely sidelined my argument in favor of “but why does *she* get to write for this place that belongs to *me* and people who agree with me?”
Ben Shapiro is not a racist. He’s not alt-right. He’s not a white supremacist or any other nasty label you want to slap on him. The truth is, you want him gone because he holds views that you want to effectively eliminate by excluding them from spaces you think belong to you.
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