There are so many bad assumptions baked into this article it’s basically a “can you find all the things wrong with this picture” puzzle.

For instance, failing to understand how hate speech is a tool of power used to suppress minorities and send the message that violence against them is permitted:

That’s actually the unspoken tension behind every argument about censorship or “cancel culture.” Speech only exists in human brains, so the problem isn’t the comedian’s bigoted joke; it’s the assumption that some segment of the audience will not have the brainpower to know what to do with it. You’re giving a blowtorch to a toddler.

Humanity just naturally and spontaneously loves beef and gas cars; the industries producing them being vast and powerful enough to bend the landscape to their economic interests has nothing to do with it:

But Americans love their gasoline cars even more than guns (more than 97% of new car buyers still choose gas over electric, with huge gas-guzzling trucks being the fastest-growing market), and they love their hamburgers and steaks even more (Americans average more than a pound of beef a week, only 5% of us are vegetarians).

Wow if only some bearded guy had written about this back in the 19th century:

This is why that whole scenario scares me; if you’re telling me that mass unemployment is inevitable due to automation, then you’re telling me that society is a ticking time bomb.

USSR bad, China bad:

This was the undercurrent of the Red Scare (“What if the Soviet method of crushing dissent and restricting economic choice is just more efficient in the long run?”), the War on Terror (“What if religious zealotry is more powerful than secular indifference?”) and our fear of a rising China (“At the outset of COVID they just physically locked citizens in their homes by force and it totally worked!”).

Equating “not letting people be plague rats” with forced marriages and blasphemy laws:

What if it turns out that oppressive traditions like arranged marriages, blind patriotism, and blasphemy laws actually give a culture an advantage over an enemy that has abandoned them?

Communism is when you kill dogs and the more dogs you kill the communist-er it is:

I spent thousands of dollars on vet bills when my dog got cancer; would that be allowed in a perfectly just and efficient society? In fact, should people capable of treating cancer even be allowed to waste their talents on dogs?

Literally just describing the US today:

It’s entirely possible that a century from now, the dominant superpower will look back at our movies and TV shows and cringe just as hard as we do when watching racist old cartoons. “Look how they gave food and shelter to the unemployed artists, instead of simply exterminating them and freeing up resources for military conquest!”