Posted on 03/18/2018 8:55:44 AM PDT by Liberty7732
It’s pretty obvious to every conservative in the country by now that the American Left is where virtually all censorship resides. But you only know this if you get news from more outlets than the old, traditional media.
Whether it is college campuses run by the Left and instituting liberal-approved speech codes and tiny free speech zones on campus, their practical goal is censorship;
Or it is demonstrators and marchers who shout down conservative political opponents, refusing to allow them to speak and often threatening the institution that dared even allow them;
Or it is the violent, progressive, Communist, anarchist Antifa that roams the streets of our most liberal cities to attack conservatives or Trump supporters for being conservatives or Trump supporters;
Or it is the social media giants such as Youtube demonetizing conservatives for saying conservative things (Prager U is the most egregious example) or Twitter suspending conservative accounts for tweeting conservative ideas or Facebook blocking posts that are politically incorrect based on the recommendations of liberal organizations such as Snopes determining they are “fake news;
Or it is our public schools indoctrinating students with progressive ideals and punishing those who deviate, such as the New Prague Minnesota High School kid who came out during the national school walkout with a sign that said guns don’t kill people, people do, and the principle forcing him away — this was a consistent theme around the nation, no deviation from the progressive message at many schools;
Or it is the ever-expanding universe of political correctness determining things you cannot say without dire personal consequences, i.e. if a person has XX chromosomes and a penis, that person is a man.
Each of these areas stem from the American Left, and we can all come up with more. Every one is dominated by progressive liberals and one of their consistencies is a sort of instinctive lurch to squash any speech with which they disagree. Their practical goal is censorship. We wrote about Boston’s liberal mayor shutting down free speech he disagreed with in August 2017.
One is hard-pressed to come up with a single example of an institution on the Right that seeks censorship, to shut down the speech of liberals.
So the question is why? What has happened where the very bastions fighting for free speech 60 years ago, such as universities and liberals in a general sense, are now the anti-free speech totalitarians?
There are at least two explanations.
• Government Knows Best. The instinct of liberals is that government is the best institution for solving societal woes. Not the family. Not the church. Not community organizations. Government. This, of course, is the antithesis of the thinking of the founders and framers of the nation, who saw the government as the single biggest threat to a society made up of individuals.
That’s why socialism is such a cozy fit for a progressive liberal: Benevolent government, run by the smartest among us, owning and distributing society’s wealth and making all the big decisions, is surely far better than selfish capitalists and ignorant masses making those decisions in chaos.
If you prefer central government decision-making over individual liberties — which is not the words, but most certainly the practice on the Left today — then of course you are hardly going to be in favor of uncontrolled speech by the masses.
• Liberal Ideas Don’t Win Arguments. This is going to trip some triggers — so perhaps a trigger warning is in order — but liberalism generally builds its belief structure on emotions, not on rational, data-driven, science-grounded arguments. This is why contradictions and inconsistencies are so common, and why liberals are so quick to resort to demonstrations and protests with signs and placards — those can capture emotional sentiments much better than reasoned arguments.
Consider these hackneyed banalities:
> A baby before the birth canal may be terminated at the mother’s whim, because it is her individual “choice” whether that is a human or not — despite science screaming the baby’s measurable humanity by 4-6 weeks, and what ultrasounds show is going on the whole pregnancy. Moments later when it is out of the birth canal, she cannot because the exact same act would be murder. Inside, can kill. Outside, murder. Same baby, just seperated by moments.
> Two dads or two moms — gay couples as parents — are just as good at parenting as traditional husbands and wives — despite the weight of fully available studies showing just the opposite.
> A man can believe he is a woman and not only is that acceptable and not a mental condition — which it obviously is — but we must contort our society down to school restrooms, showers and sports teams to accommodate gender-confused people. They obviously need compassion and help. That is not it.
> There are 63 genders. So far. Enough said.
> Hate speech is not free speech. No hate speech allowed!
These are laughable, and tragic, but hardly isolated.
Let’s take a very recent example. The entire liberal establishment — from media to schools to activist organizations — used and propagandized students nationwide after the Parkland, Florida, shootings to push for gun bans even when it came out that the Broward County Sheriff, Broward County Schools, the state of Florida and the FBI all massively failed to do their jobs competently in this case.
A reasonable way to sum up their argument is that government failed at every level to protect us, we need to ban guns and have government protect us.
Conservatives can shoot a thousand holes in the arguments made about the need for gun control after Parkland.
But the reality remains: the more an institution is dominated by liberalism, the less that institution will brook any contrary speech. Alas it is true: Censorship is part and parcel with liberalism.
because they are living in a dream world and don’t want to be awakened
Marxists.
I no longer post on Facebook they started taking all the post that were true and deleted them anything that is not positive about a liberal is taken down with lies about the reason why..It is so boring lots of people complaining and are also not posting..I was blocked for one day for posting something true about a Muslim murder and rapist..Now you can’t find anything about a Muslim on there or I couldn’t find anything..Oh well they will lose all the posters..
Later, that increasingly powerful group-think portion of the society began to dominate politics and government and to impose their anti-Bill of Rights views while, at the same time, cloaking their anti-Constitutional will in innocent-sounding semantics designed to hide a totalitarian agenda for America and proudly declaring themselves to be "Progressives."
To look back on the Progressive movement's actions and policies over the decades since the late 1800's, a scholarly, objective study would reveal a dark agenda inconsistent with what most citizens would consider "progressive," in any true sense. Rather, the Progressive agenda has been regressive and totalitarian when translated into policies and actions by the required elite group of cultish Progressives designated to impose its rules and agenda for America.
The Deocraps want all the whites, blacks, browns and yellows to stay on the plantation, so they can control them, and control you, dear smart reader.
Most liberal arguments are not logically supportable. So their only defenses are either shouting down their opposition or silencing them. Liberalism simply will not withstand the light of reason.
I'm pretty sure that if it has a XX chromosome it's a female, regardless of where the "penis" came from.
The elites think that they can do better at tyranny (pick you type) than those past tyrants, because "they just didn't have the right people running thing".
The Natural Rights of Man to the progs are like water to the Wicked Witch. Once people wake up the "...inalienable Rights, among them Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness", the prog's shell game is OVER.
The game will only last as long as they can keep the People ignorant or mollified
Same reason why they want to import illegal aliens to vote for them: Americans don’t what liberals!
Control Freaks are not rational.
Confront them with rational thinking, and their heads explode.
Therefore, rational thinkers must be censored.
PC is censorship.
Leftists desire control of everything, especially peoples’ thoughts.
Liberals do not want you to have warning as you are rounded up and sent off to a camp to be executed. See obamas friend the terrorist who wants to kill 25% of the population.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.