Felix, Matt and Virgil were not present and shouldn't get dragged down with them on the matter.
Not to say they never have bad takes or are never wrong on anything, but at minimum they weren't dumb enough to defend cops/criticize ACAB and BLM at the peak of the Floyd protests.
I'm just defending the Good Bois honor and virtue.
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Free speech ideological consistency necessitates defending all of it and it feels like his coverage of left vs right censorship issues at the moment is in line with their present cultural scale of impact. Freedom of speech is the thing that is being defended (not the substance of the speech obvs) so it makes sense as a journalist to follow that where it is most relevant to the current moment. There really has been a very strange almost complete reversal of historical attitudes between the right and left with regards to censorship so it’s a really weird thing to wade through for either side.