Regulating Public Opinion

The nanny state is now hinting that it will turn its benevolent eye toward restricting anti-Americanism, now that it’s showing signs of being bad for business.

I’m all for the government outlawing discrimination or speaking out against racism, but of course, that might involve holding up a mirror before people at their ugliest, curbing the enshrined superiority of the Korean minjok, and giving away a valuable election-year asset. Instead, the South Koreans’ real goal is merely to keep anti-Americanism out of the U.S. media.