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Weren’t Democrats Once the Champions of Free Speech?
American Thinker ^
| 17 Sep, 2024
| Brian C. Joondeph
Posted on 09/17/2024 5:09:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Free speech, but only for the leftists.
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:09:51 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
That’s what they wanted you to think.
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:10:07 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
The ACLU gave up that pretense a long time ago. They still occasionally take something and make it an issue when it is a real freedom of speech thing, but they have been simply practicing Leftist advocacy for decades.
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:13:40 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
To: rlmorel
“Your speech is violence. Our violence is speech.”
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:16:32 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: MtnClimber
Only for their own.
Yours, not so much.................
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:16:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: MtnClimber
It’s worse than just that. Many “progressives” are not satisfied by just preventing you from speaking freely. You must go further, and agree with everything they say. Your silence on an issue is itself a violent act.
And yes, you can buy a shirt to proudly display your fascist thinking.
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:25:17 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: MtnClimber
No, the Democrats were not champions of free speech, unless you were White.
It took almost 200 years before the Democrats allowed Negroes to practice their civil rights.
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:25:52 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: MtnClimber
When I was in high school back in the 1970s, there were left-leaning “smart kids” wearing the “Question Authority” buttons. They were free speech advocates then. Today, they probably label any free speech they disagree with as “misinformation.”
To: dfwgator
Did you make that up? Because it is very well said, FRiend...
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:32:22 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
To: MtnClimber
The Free Speech movement began at Berkeley with student protests in 1964-65. Their basic demand was that communist teachers are protected by the First Amendment. Now that communists are in power, free speech is what they say it is.
To: MtnClimber
Not at all, they have always tightly controlled speech to make everything variations of liberalism, people who remember the beginning of PBS saw that and were disappointed in the 60s to learn that the govt. station started by the democrats was going to be so controlled.
A conservative Ted Turner rejected as the buyer for CBS, libraries with their annual box of “censored books” but if you suggested other books the left didn’t like, the library would not accept them, the Fairness Doctrine was a perfect example, free speech law that yet again kept out challenges to the left.
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:47:31 AM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: MtnClimber
“Weren't the Democrats Champions of Free Speech?” No. They never were. The Democrats just parrotted the Communist Party talking points and then said that anyone opposed them was opposed to free speech. The Democrats always supported censorship and ridicule for others.
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posted on
09/17/2024 5:53:41 AM PDT
by
detective
(F)
To: MtnClimber
The Democrats were champions of free speech when 95% of the media was controlled by Progressives.
When the Left no longer could control the narrative, they no longer were in favor of free speech.
Now the Left's vision of "free speech" is: Your speech is violence. My violence is speech.
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posted on
09/17/2024 6:05:35 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
To: MtnClimber
Then child killing came and they cannot stand the truth.
You cannot be rabid feminist and pro-life. Not the wsy God made woman.
To: marktwain
Sort of like this:
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posted on
09/17/2024 6:15:14 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
This works because the democrat party has nurtured two main constituencies, the lower IQ ignorant and the young. One cannot reason why something is wrong and the other has no historic reference to know why something is wrong.
This is not hypocrisy, it’s a game plan.
EC
To: MtnClimber
The Democrats used to be champions of the working class until they found out they could make many more $$$$ becoming servants of the elites.
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
09/17/2024 6:48:49 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: MtnClimber
No, they paid lip service, but they never actually believed in free speech. This goes back at least to Woodrow Wilson.
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posted on
09/17/2024 7:18:20 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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