It does not take a government to ban speech, they do it all the time in institutes of higher learning, i.e. universities and colleges. How many times have we read that a small group of malcontents shut down a speaker at a university or college campus because they fear, "hate speech?" It happens all the time, many in fact have speech codes in which you must follow and if you don't off to sensitivity training you go, or are expelled. High schools are doing much the same. Heaven forbid you have a different philosophy than those in charge.
And although you say conservatives are just as guilty, I would say, no you are mistaken. When conservative point to someone who should lose their job over an issue they are just maintaining the same standards at which liberals hold conservatives. With the exception of Shirley Sherrod no one got fired, (Shirley resigned, but should not have had to). But, look at what happens to conservatives. Rush Limbaugh got fired from ESPN. Don Imus got fired from his show, and Ann Coulter got booted from one of her jobs as well because of political correctness.
Political correctness rears its ugly head on a daily basis and in every facet of life, and no government needed to pass any laws. :soap
