A few weeks ago, staffers at the New York Times got twisty because the paper's op-ed section ran a signed piece by Sen. Tom Cotton that argued President Trump should deploy National Guard troops to quell riots in major American cities. The Times killed the piece before it could run in a print edition and opinion editor James Bennett "got resigned" from his job.
Turns out that Times staffers actually are pretty much OK with forceful intervention in the face of civil unrest -- as long as it's done by the totalitarian Chinese government. At least, none of them have so far objected to the presence in their pages of a piece supporting the crackdown on personal freedom in Hong Kong.
As the post title suggests, the old real estate maxim really can apply to just about anything.
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