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Why Does the Left Have Such a Difficult Time With the Concept of 'Free Speech'?
PJ Media ^ | Apr 30, 2022 9:34 AM ET | Rick Moran

Posted on 04/30/2022 10:31:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.

—George Washington

Washington was on to something. There is no more vital safeguard of our liberties than freedom of speech. Without it, we are, as Washington graphically notes, “like sheep led to the slaughter.”

Benjamin Franklin (writing as the widow Silence Dogood) said it as plainly as it could be said.

In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

This is one of those truths that appear to be self-evident. But today, only some speech is considered “free.” The rest must comport with a dizzying number of rules, conventions, and arbitrary guidelines that makes a mockery of the concept of free speech.

The left just doesn’t get it. They have lost sight of the beautiful simplicity of the concept of free speech. “If you can think it, you can speak it,” is no longer operative in America. It’s been lost. And if we don’t find it …

Get in line my fellow sheep. How bad can it get, right?

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To: Levy78

There positions are based entirely on emotion, not logic.

I noticed a language shift several years ago. When giving their opinion, people used to say, “I think...,” now they say, “I feel...” There is no way for emotion to argue against logic.


21 posted on 04/30/2022 10:55:25 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Leftists are totalitarians. In in the blood.


22 posted on 04/30/2022 10:55:40 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The left just doesn’t get it. They have lost sight of the beautiful simplicity of the concept of free speech.

Why are people on the right such wimps (like this guy)? Why is it so hard to say what is obvious, that the Left could care less about free speech or the Constitution? They are enacting a plan, which is not being slowed in the least by anybody that is supposedly on our side.

23 posted on 04/30/2022 10:55:51 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Antifa/BLM = Azov Battalion.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They have no problem with free speech; so long as it’s theirs.


24 posted on 04/30/2022 10:57:56 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stop with this posting! You are hurting my feelings.


25 posted on 04/30/2022 10:59:19 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They GET speech.... they don’t get ‘free’


26 posted on 04/30/2022 11:01:30 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’re afraid some people might still be susceptible to reason. I think that’s pretty remote.


27 posted on 04/30/2022 11:06:18 AM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The left doesn’t have any problem with free speech. You’re free to say anything they agree to. Anything they disagree with is totalitarian hate speech which must be utterly abolished because they say so. To protect people from totalitarianism.


28 posted on 04/30/2022 11:12:51 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because emotionally they are a bunch of 12y.o. pre pubescent little moody girls. They never natured past 13 because mom and dad never told them no followed with a swift kick to the rear for added measure.


29 posted on 04/30/2022 11:13:37 AM PDT by Ikeon (The truth wont dent a persons argument who wants to believe a lie)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
In 1964 the students at UC Berkeley founded The Free Speech Movement. These folks were left wing mostly. They actively championed the 1st Amendment.

Today's Left takes their cue from East Germany's infamous Stasi.

How weird that the Left went from advocating Free Speech to advocating a totalitarian surveillance state of snitches and proscribed thought. Even the ACLU has become totalitarian.

Now they want an Orwellian "Ministry of Truth". Unbelievable.

30 posted on 04/30/2022 11:15:13 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What they want would never pass in the court of public opinion nor through legislation. So they need activist judges and extreme gaslighting to succeed, oh and spineless Rinos.


31 posted on 04/30/2022 11:30:12 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: Bob434
simple. because free speech allows folks to expose what sick perverted anti American freaks the left are- and hte3 left can’t stand being exposed like that

Bingo.

32 posted on 04/30/2022 12:02:04 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

While we defend the rights to free speech vigorously and frequently, let us also remind ourselves of the moral duty to do our best to speak the truth.


33 posted on 04/30/2022 12:05:26 PM PDT by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When you cannot compete in the arena of ideas ...


34 posted on 04/30/2022 12:08:07 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (It seems the only immunity the vaccines provide is that big pharma can’t be sued.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

George Washington was a rich white slave owner.

His thoughts cannot be considered.

/s


35 posted on 04/30/2022 12:17:36 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s because them nut job professors in the colleges warped their minds. Do you know if they want to go after someone for their student debt they ought to go after the colleges who taught them a whole bunch of bull


36 posted on 04/30/2022 12:32:40 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why Does the Left Have Such a Difficult Time With the Concept of ‘Free Speech’?


The Left has no desire to govern free men. They want to rule over slaves.

If you learn nothing else from your time at FR, learn this: the Left are the very tyrants the founding fathers warned you against.


37 posted on 04/30/2022 12:45:19 PM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The left are the great protectors. They exist to save you. They create crisis then try to solve the crisis. By taking away free speech, they are preventing you from being possibly injured (psychologically or physically) and avoiding any information that may cause anxiety in others see? It’s for our own good.


38 posted on 04/30/2022 12:55:56 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They fear free speech because their arguments don’t hold water when presented with inconvenient facts. Their arguments MUST be true because it FEELS right, and facts interfere with their feelings.


39 posted on 04/30/2022 12:59:59 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Free speech is like Holy Water & The Cross to a vampire for Libs.


40 posted on 04/30/2022 1:36:05 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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