NEVER FORGET: YouTube Suspended Rand Paul for Criticizing Masks

Mandates were never worth it!

Use your mind’s eye to envision 1970s and 1980s America. The nation was largely a monoculture characterized by shared religion, norms and values. If someone were to enter a shopping mall wearing the niqab or a Jason mask in those years, that individual would have been arrested.

Times have clearly changed. Masks are now socially normative in public settings. However, the brave soul that is Rand Paul recently criticized those who wear masks in public. Paul also questioned those who insist mask-wearing is necessary. YouTube promptly suspended the Kentucky Senator’s account.

Paul Takes on the Masked Brigade

If it seems like no one outside of far right circles is willing to ban all masks, your assessment of our society is accurate. Paul is one of the few remaining politicians to publicly criticize those who wear masks in public.

Several states such a…