Posted on 02/03/2022 6:55:59 AM PST by NOBO2012
“If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. 1856-1941, Liberal, Progressive
Serious Throwback Thursday question: Does anyone else remember when Liberals were adamantly opposed to censorship? They were you know, back before “liberal” became a synonym for “fascist.” But today you would be hard pressed to find more than a handful of people who identify with the Left/Democrats who are opposed to cancel culture. They love shutting down whatever they determine to be “hate speech” or the advancement of dangerous “conspiracies,” i.e. anything they don’t personally believe to be true.
From one of the Left’s few remaining free thinkers:
Wow, Dems/Lean Dems; you honestly think that the answer to bad speech is NOT more speech but rather more regulation and censorship? That is terrifying. You actually trust the nameless, faceless, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who are empowered to regulate every aspect of your life? The petty tyrants who enjoy requiring Americans to play Simon Says?
Simon Says No Mask! Simon Says Mask! Simon Says Double Mask! No Mask! Ha – caught you!
You believe that the inscrutable algorithms of Twitter, Google, Facebook et al are unbiased and deployed only for the public good? Or perhaps you approve of squelching speech you don’t approve of, never imagining the tables could be turned at some point and used against you and your speech.
A gifted propagandist acutely conscious of the relationship between political power and optics, Mussolini established a High Commission for the press in the spring of 1929. Insisting that the Commission would not interfere with the freedom of the press, Mussolini’s Keeper of the Seals, Alfredo Rocco, nevertheless maintained an exception for “any activity.
The Keeper of Seals would, of course, determine if an activity was “contrary to the national interest.” You Dems/Leaning Dems really need to understand that your position is closer to Mussolini than the Founding Fathers. You are simply Mussolini fascists with an Orwellian makeover.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
“Liberal” doesn’t mean “liberal’ any more.............................
I could spend a whole day at the nearest university and not find one student who knows who Brandeis was.
If I lived in Boston, maybe half the day.
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. With the participation of thousands of students, the Free Speech Movement was the civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s.
The Free Speech Movement was influenced by the New Left, and was also related to the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement.
The Left in America has, somewhat predictably, totally reversed itself and now uses violence and censorship to oppose basic civil rights and install a fascist regime. Well done, Hippies!
Liberals in my day were also against government control . . .
Under the guise of diversity they demand businesses conform to their views and policies. They demand a business (eg. bakery, photographer, etc.) accept certain customers. If/when they don't, do the liberal/leftist/fascists themselves "accept" this? Heck no! They boycott, sue, demonize, threaten... They cannot and will not "accept" diversity - anything or anyone that diverges from their world view must be attacked.
The liberal/leftist/fascists are clamoring for censorship. Throughout history, when have the people suppressing information and freedom ever been the good guys?
Today's "liberals" might as well put on brown shirts and jackboots - that is who they have become, that is who they are.
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
― William F. Buckley
“Liberals don’t care what you do so long as it’s compulsory.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.
Progressivism is double plus ungood.
that was when they were not in control
now that they are, free speech be damned
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