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Bill Otis, a professor at Georgetown Law and former federal prosecutor, suggested the YouCaring decision is indicative of left-wing activists’ thinking about causes that do not fit their worldview.

“This is a variant of what is advertised as the ‘why can’t we all just get along’ way of thinking — if ‘thinking’ is the right word — but exposes the idea for what it is, to wit, not a plea for civic broad-mindedness, but a demand that conservatives shut up,” Otis told LifeZette.

“The idea that we ought to avoid ‘discord’ in public debate, and still less in facilitating accountability in court, is the equivalent of the idea that we ought to avoid thinking and take tranquilizers instead,” Otis said. “That might be a good thing for promoting an electorate of Happy Face sheep, but is poorly suited for a marketplace of ideas.”

Otis warned that the silencing of voices that do not fit the Left’s preferred narrative will continue to do damage to social cohesion.

“It is not the debating and testing of ideas that undermines a healthy society. It is the chilling of that debate,” he said. “It’s bad enough when the chill starts to take over on our elite campuses. It is worse still — much worse — when it starts to strangle what an ordinary citizen can ask a judge to consider.”

“But it is exactly that outcome the ironically named YouCaring now seeks to promote,” said Otis.[lz_pagination]