Automatically assuming a public figure complaining about having 'controversial' opinions is using it as a smokescreen for bigotry has a remarkably high success rate.
Because controversial idea don't get you canceled. The Last Jedi was good is controversial, people will argue with you but you won't be publicly lambasted. Actually blackface is cool is a little different
Something tells me this journal never publishes articles like "Why the proletariat should seize the means of production" or "In defense of expropriating the wealth of billionaires"
Wow, turns out I wasn't too far off.
Automatically assuming a public figure complaining about having 'controversial' opinions is using it as a smokescreen for bigotry has a remarkably high success rate.
Because controversial idea don't get you canceled. The Last Jedi was good is controversial, people will argue with you but you won't be publicly lambasted. Actually blackface is cool is a little different
Something tells me this journal never publishes articles like "Why the proletariat should seize the means of production" or "In defense of expropriating the wealth of billionaires"
No. Never