Show me a book-banner, and I’ll show you a would-be tyrant. The same applies to individuals who seek to promote mandatory speech: what you’re forbidden to read, what you must say. Almost always, such efforts involve everybody’s favorite pastime: judging the intimate lives of others.
Here in Arkansas, Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently went to war against what she described as “woke nonsense” supposedly belittling real women like herself, a mother of three. Arguing that “the left” has “decided ‘woman’ is a dirty word,” she issued an executive order — in Iran, they’d call it a fatwa — banishing from public documents a bunch of words nobody’s ever seen there.
