
“Can you imagine campaigns as ludicrous as this being launched, say, in the 1970s or 1980s? No you can’t because not even the most extreme killjoy zealot would have dared. With bans, as with so many of the fascistic gestures you associate with the authoritarian left, it’s a Pastor Niemoller thing. Left-liberals often deny that slippery slope exists. ‘Well of course we’re not interested in banning everything. Just the really dangerous stuff. Tobacco.’ Then, of course, when they’ve pretty much regulated tobacco out of existence their locust eyes turn to new territory. Mm: alcohol. Mm: sugar. Mm. salt… etc.”
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