Take for instance, the social media site GAB. They essentially refuse to moderate any content that is legal speech under US law. Unlike the Facebooks and Twitters of the world that censor viewpoints they don’t like. For this stance, credit card companies deny them service. Google and Apple deny them a spot on their app store. Obviously there is a pc police. People get fired for posts on twitter. Again, pc police. And so on and so forth.
“Ideas have consequences”, Frank Herbert said (and I’m sure many others have echoed him).
If my choices make credit card companies unwilling to associate with me, whether for their own reasons or because of perceived backlash from their stakeholders then that is MY problem.
That said, there is always collateral damage. Living in WA state, I’m reminded of when marijuana was legalized and banks would not deal with companies that sold the stuff because their national standing as corporations put them at potential risk with the federal government. Unintended consequences of well-meaning people who had the neat idea of legalizing the stuff.
I can see your point about a PC police. Things do get taken too far with cancelation culture.
And I also wonder if what we’re doing is, in fits and spurts, trying to work our way into a better world.
We won’t get there by rewriting our pasts, though, a la 1984, but by acknowledging them and moving beyond them.