The Dangers of "Just Build Your Own Country"


First everyone has a legal right to do what they did:

Gina Carano had a right to post on her Twitter account.
People upset at her post had the right to call for her being fired.
Disney had the right to fire her.
Disney also has the right to not fire Pedro Pascal (Mr. Mandalorian) and other employees for posting very similar nazi/holocaust content on their own Twitter accounts. (1)
People upset at the hypocrisy of Gina’s firing have the right to boycott and #canceldisney.(2)
And Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire have the right to partner with her for their next movie.(3)
So all of that is legal and constitutional. And considering none of the actions are mandated by the government I would also claim this is the free market at work. However, free market or not, the fact that this situation happened at all, begs the question: “Where does this end?
Leftists told Trump supporters to, “Build your own social media.”
When Parler was shut down, they said, “Build your own servers.”
Now when Disney employs an outspoken conservative, they say, “Go make your own movies.”
This is the danger of politicizing anything and everything. For crying out loud, we are now going to have Republican and Democrat pillows.(4) This is lunacy, and yet this trend only seems to be picking up steam. And that begs a very serious question, “Where does this end?”
At some point half of the population will demand that the other half “Go build your own country.” (5)
I’m not being hyperbolic. This is the natural, logical conclusion of this principle of intolerance. This is not how we respond with a soft answer (Proverbs 15:1). This is not how we love our enemies (Matthew 5:44). We are not enemies, but this progression is how enemies are created. This rhetoric is dangerous and it needs to stop before the damage is irreversible.

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