Commentary As the cancellation of conservative people and ideas proceeds, leaders of longtime conservative institutions find themselves in a steadily tightening bind. They have their principles, but they have to run the ship, too. No matter how much integrity they have, and no matter how firmly the institution holds to conservative beliefs, the ordinary operations of the institution inevitably entangle them in anti-conservative forces. First, and most obviously, any social media the institution issues must pass the censors at Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Those media giants have committed identity-leftists within their own ranks who diligently screen out content on controversial matters of sex, race, COVID-19, climate, the 2020 election, trans-individuals, immigration, family formation … (the list will continue to grow) that falls well on the right side of opinion. Facebook has just updated its “hate speech” rules that effectively makes the criterion of “hate” the feelings of oppressed groups, for …
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