Censorship Is Real, But It's Not Happening To M&Ms

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Three seemingly unrelated stories have gone viral this week. Firstly, the M&Ms were given new shoes. Secondly, a Tennessee school board banned Maus. And third, Minnie Mouse has been given a Stella McCartney pantsuit for Disneyland Paris' 30th anniversary. These feel like very different stories, and two of them feel quite frivolous, while the banning of Maus (a graphic novel that starkly depicts the Holocaust in an engaging and heartbreaking way) seems more serious, perhaps even a little scary. Here's the thing though - they're all the same story.

It's incredibly clumsy to split politics merely into 'the left' and 'the right', but indulge me for a second, because this debate is always framed as ‘right’ versus ‘left’, even if the two are never fully defined. 'The right' frequently likes to accuse 'the left' of censorship. A lot of the time, this is less 'censorship' and more 'don't be a knob'. No, you can't say racist or homophobic things like you used to get away with in the '70s. That doesn't mean your freedoms are being eroded. Occasionally, with the accuracy of a broken clock, they might have a point. The word 'Latinx' is loaded with controversy even amongst those who fall under its definition. 'Womxn' even more so. And even someone like me, a trans woman who writes about the political and gender intersection of video games and thus gets called an SJW and a whole lot worse on a regular basis, can agree that we're a little too sensitive these days.

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