Kurt Sclichter thread
Stop acting like these leftists actually support freedom of speech and that if we just explain how what they’re doing is censorship they’ll slap their foreheads with their palms and change course.
They won’t change until we hit back. 1/
That change is not going to come because they suddenly rediscover the value of free expression. They don’t believe it has any value except as a shield to protect themselves.
They never intended free-speech to be exercised by their opponents, us. 2/
What they are doing now with this cancellation strategy is trying to intimidate us into submission by exercising soft power, power that exists largely because we consent to it.
But soft power is just that, soft. 3/
These aspiring Maoists never actually studied what Mao said.
Remember what he said power grows out of?
The barrel of a gun, not a blue check’s keyboard.
And who has the guns? 4/
Right now, because leftists control the institutions, this kind of soft power predominates. But people don’t just conform to the paradigm of their oppressors.
They will exercise their own kind of power if the legitimacy of the system that restrained them previously fails. 5/
In other words, the people oppressed by the soft power of our liberal elite are not going to merely shrug and submit in the long run. They are going to exercise their own kind of power.
One kind is political power. That’s how we got Trump. 6/
But there is a coordinated attack on the ability of normal people to use their political power. These include the ongoing attempts to rig the elections by the Democrats and the use of government institutions to neuter Trump’s ability to act on behalf of those who elected him. 7/
Pushed far enough, normal people will react to a system that fails to provide them any voice or any protection with the only kind of power remaining that they can exercise.
Force.
History is full of such examples. I saw the consequences of that happening in the Balkans. 8/
The liberal establishment thinks they can stop history and lock-in a grim status quo of permanent subjugation enforced by social media shaming and cultural cancellation. But eventually, normal people are going to revolt. 9/
And if that happens, they are going to find out the norms and rules they so cavalierly disposed of because they provided an obstacle to their own power are not going to be there to protect them when things gets real.
And they are so dumb that they will be surprised. 10/
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