I remember when most of this shit (not all, but most), came from beret-wearing self-important dipshits from the far left (again, I remember the shanty on the West Mall).
And, we (rightly in my mind) heard pushback from this about political correctness run amok, "cancel culture" (the more recent iteration of that phenomenon got this name), etc. People who "championed ideas" and said that "freedom of thought" and "liberty" (lotta "libertarians" spoke up) had a lot to say.
Turns out....those people were mostly full of shit. Because now that the same approaches and tactics are being used, predictably, with much historical precedent and with much success, by the other end of the political spectrum....crickets chirping. And none of those "academic freedom" and "marketplace of ideas" types are doing jack shit to defend the values they told us were so damned important to them.
Turns out, almost all the folks who got pissed off at leftists practicing cancel culture were just mad that they weren't able to do it too. Now they are, with real results, and turns out, they like cancel culture very, very, very much. It's even better when it has the full weight of the government behind it as well. Cancel culture by hippies and shit with little power? That's bad. Cancel culture with the stamp of government approval? That's AWESOME, and we should have more of it.
Any of us who actually believe in liberty and a diverse marketplace of ideas? We can get fucked.