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Article: Intolerant Alliance.
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- Reason
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- March 1, 2001
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Censors of right and left have been cooperating for years.
Punditry rests on a foundation of easy stereotypes, cliches that make it easier to fit one's ideas into a short op-ed or even shorter soundbite. So when social conservatives and liberal social engineers team up against speech that both find distasteful--be it pornography, South Park, or video games--the combination is inevitably labeled an "unusual alliance," even if those allegedly unusual allies have been snuggling for years.
The conventional wisdom has it that American censors have always been right-wing, at least in the days before political correctness. It might come as a surprise, then, ...