See the repression inherent in the system!

Some conservatives seem convinced that criticizing the use to which they put their free speech is one step away from sending the thought police to smash in their doors and mindwipe them.
Consider, for example, Dennis Prager. In a column (hat tip to Echidne for linking to it) he explains the hideous way in which the left is crushing free speech:
•No-one is allowed to say Miss or Mrs. any more: It has to be Ms!
•No-one can say Merry Christmas any more because it offends multiculturalists!
•”Honest discussion of male-female differences” is taboo—Larry Summers merely broached the subject at Harvard and he got fired!
•Christians will soon be forbidden to preach against homosexuality!
•Women can dress like prostitutes at work, but if a man compliments her breasts, he can be charged with harassment (this is a sarcastic interpretation of his remarks, I note, not a literal synopsis).
•Now the left has made “target” and “crosshairs” offensive!
First off, I have no idea whether Prager’s daft enough to sincerely believe what he’s spouting or if he’s playing the victim card. The idea that leftists are denying conservatives the right to speak freely is one of those right-wing hotbuttons (as Roy Edroso once observed, a lot of it seems outrage they can’t use the n-word without taking flak) that keeps their fury stoked. It’s a good card to play.
On the other hand, Prager may genuinely feel that he’s being persecuted. As I’ve noted in the past, some people feel that any gains made by women/gays/minorities represent a loss for everyone else; if it’s no longer safe to tell your coworker you jerked off thinking about her last night, that means you’re no longer free to do what you want, which means you’re being oppressed right?
What I am sure of is that his examples are a heaping pile of manure, equivalent to the conservative Christian wails that children are no longer allowed to pray in school (they can pray in school. They just have to do it without the school organizing it).
•Yes, you can still say Merry Christmas. Maybe not while you’re on the job, and maybe non-Christians might take offense, but nobody’s going to haul you off to a re-education camp.
•Women can, and do, call themselves Mrs. or Miss if they choose. It’s even still on most of the forms that I see.
•I read Summers’ speech and he did not just tentatively float a balloon: He stated that in his opinion, the lack of women in science had almost nothing to do with discrimination and everything to do with life choices, innate ability, etc. It’s reasonable to argue he shouldn’t have been fired over that; it’s also reasonable to argue that a college president who thinks men are by definition better qualified than women for certain positions isn’t right for the job. (Just for the record, innate gender differences don’t disprove discrimination: The accounts of women breaking into a male-dominated field that I’ve read are less “Wow, we’re so impressed by your superiority to other women—welcome!” than “What are you doing taking a man’s job, bitch?”).
•No matter how much the right wing wails, their ability to preach against gays is not going away; hell, we’ve had the Civil Rights Act for 40 years and some preachers still speak out against interracial relationships. If Fred Phelps can get away with his brand of hate, nobody else has to worry. (My personal opinion: This may be less a genuine fear than an attempt to rationalize the claim that gay marriage is somehow destroying heterosexuals’ rights).
•As for objections to Palin’s “targeting” Democrats being purely a matter of anti-gun political correctness … Please. If Prager wanted to defend her right to do it, I’d agree with him, but it’s still a valid issue (though understandably one the right would rather deflect). And as I’ve said before, if an Islamic group had put cross-hairs on Palin’s back, she’d be talking out the other side of her mouth.
Whatever Prager’s motive, he has no argument here, just a meaningless whine.