Never mind that a member of a federal agency empowered to regulate kitchen appliances had just said, out loud, that a gas-stove ban was on the table, and that less than one month ago, Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Don Beyer sent a letter to the CPSC highlighting the “cumulative burden” that gas-stove emissions putatively impose on “Black, Latino, and low-income households.” The story wasn’t the proposed ban, which would have outlawed an appliance owned by tens of thousands of Americans, but the fact that conservatives didn’t like it.
The media reaction was another example of an oft-deployed trope: progressives aren’t “waging a culture war” when they try to chemically castrate schoolchildren, deny life-saving medical care to abortion survivors, or ban popular kitchen appliances. Conservatives are “waging a culture war,” however, when they notice, and declare their intention to do something about it.
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