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Time Columnist Denounces Free Speech As A White Man’s “Obsession”
Tradeforprofit.net ^ | 5-1-2022 | Jonathan Turley,

Posted on 05/01/2022 1:06:43 PM PDT by blam

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To: blam

Alter denounces free speech as basically a white man’s “obsession.”

What must these POS think of whitey that they feel they can dismiss him this way. Go ahead, stupid, make my day.


21 posted on 05/01/2022 1:43:17 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: blam

Oh, give me a break.


22 posted on 05/01/2022 1:44:01 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: blam

The left is always willing to say how it really thinks: it wants to suppress thoughts and words that it doesn’t approve of and eliminate Whitey.


23 posted on 05/01/2022 1:53:52 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Government, when allowed to expand, always ends up using its power, and our $, to protect its power.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
White males “obsess” about freedom of speech, which also benifits non-whites and non-males.

Yep, we white males “obsess” about freedom of speech the same way we obsess about obeying the law, getting a real education, and behaving in a manner that promotes prosperity. Not wanting rampant crime, academic failure, and a population entirely dependent upon the government is “racist.” So of course free speech is “racist”, too.

24 posted on 05/01/2022 1:57:42 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Nifster

They’re allowed to scream from their balconies at 7:00 P.M.!


25 posted on 05/01/2022 1:58:12 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: blam

Charlotte Alter

26 posted on 05/01/2022 1:58:37 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
“‘free speech’ in the 21st century means something very different than it did in the 18th, when the Founders enshrined it in the Constitution. The right to say what you want without being imprisoned is not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform. This nuance seems to be lost on some techno-wizards who see any restriction as the enemy of innovation.”
Somebody's been behind the Ivy Wall a little too long...

Too bad, bc with all that paid free time between the 3 weekly classes he needs to teach and summers and semesters off for "research," this guy could have spent an hour reading Milton's "Areopagatica" and gotten a clue that only error can test truth.
27 posted on 05/01/2022 1:59:59 PM PDT by nicollo
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I am old enough to remember when it was the right trying to squash the free speech of the leftist hippies and flag burners. And night after night, the news people would quote”

I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It. Evelyn Beatrice Hall

That was before they had completed their plan to control every American institution, private as well as public. It was before they created and used “social media” to gain total control over speech. And it was also before they decided it was time to try to brainwash the public to believe total insanity, such as “transgenderism.”

They rode the “free speech” crusade when it benefitted them, permitting them to inject their leftist ideology into every institution, company, and communication medium. Once that was achieved, it was beneficial to their cause for them to do a 180 and clamp down on free speech in order to stifle dissent. They used free speech as a battering ram to breech the walls protecting normal American culture, and once inside they used it as a wall to lock the normal, sane people out.

It was all carefully planned.

28 posted on 05/01/2022 2:10:05 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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'Time Columnist Denounces Free Speech As A White Man’s “Obsession”'

I'm sure he didn't intend it to be, but that's an argument in favor of white supremacy.

29 posted on 05/01/2022 2:12:47 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Saints are sinners who never gave up. --St. Theresa of Avila)
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30 posted on 05/01/2022 2:14:03 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Nifster

Yep, back then it was about dividing us and corrupting our country. They used free speech to denigrate our religion, culture, race, founding, values, you name it. We tolerated it because you know, free speech.

Now all that work is done so free speech is no longer needed by them. Now they need to make sure the same is not done to them. So they are going to shut it off.

We’re dealing with some real dangerous humans here, the population at large needs to figure this out very soon.

They are getting all their pieces in place. Soon it will be too late to do anything about this... if it’s not already.


31 posted on 05/01/2022 2:14:57 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: blam

What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.


32 posted on 05/01/2022 2:19:01 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: blam

We should be on the cusp of a shooting civil war. The question is, will anyone actually defend the Constitution?


33 posted on 05/01/2022 2:21:22 PM PDT by GingisK
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Alter denounces free speech as basically a white man’s “obsession.”

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So a black man is against free speech.....


34 posted on 05/01/2022 2:32:42 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: blam

Free speech for them.
Against the law for those who disagree with their “ free “ speech


35 posted on 05/01/2022 2:49:39 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: simpson96

So she wrote a book on that ubiquitous “transformation” of America.

Go to Hell, you commie traitors.

Sick of all this.


36 posted on 05/01/2022 2:53:53 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
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This blogger actually has a good perspective on. It, speaking of the hippie devil.

https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2018/08/06/i-no-longer-believe-in-free-speech/

It’s taken full advantage of, by commies to wean their way into power. As soon as they get it, no longer. Lips service first, then disposed.


37 posted on 05/01/2022 2:56:36 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
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To: noiseman

I agree


38 posted on 05/01/2022 3:01:16 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: blam

Ben Franklin never failed to chime in when he had something to say.

A snarky troll was he.

From Wikipedia:

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As a young boy, Franklin worked as an apprentice in his older brother’s printing shop in Boston, where The New-England Courant was published and printed.

Franklin never got anything he wrote published, so, at age 16, he created the persona of a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood.[1] Once every two weeks, he would leave a letter under the door of his brother’s printing shop. A total of 14 letters were sent. The first letter began:

Sir,

It may not be possible in the first Place to inform your Readers, that I intend once a Fortnight to present them, by the Help of this Paper, with a short Epistle, which I presume will add somewhat to their Entertainment.

And since it is observed, that the Generality of People, nowadays, are unwilling either to commend or dispraise what they read, until they are in some measure informed who or what the Author of it is, whether he be poor or rich, old or young, a Schollar or a Leather Apron Man, &c. and give their Opinion of the Performance, according to the Knowledge which they have of the Author’s Circumstances, it may not be amiss to begin with a short Account of my past Life and present Condition, that the Reader may not be at a Loss to judge whether or no my Lucubrations are worth his reading.[2]

The letters poked fun at various aspects of life in colonial America, such as this quote about hoop petticoats:

These monstrous topsy-turvy Mortar-Pieces, are neither fit for the Church, the Hall, or the Kitchen; and if a Number of them were well mounted on Noddles-Island, they would look more like Engines of War for bombarding the Town, than Ornaments of the Fair Sex. An honest Neighbour of mine, happening to be in Town some time since on a publick Day, inform’d me, that he saw four Gentlewomen with their Hoops half mounted in a Balcony, as they withdrew to the Wall, to the great Terror of the Militia, who (he thinks) might attribute their irregular Volleys to the formidable Appearance of the Ladies Petticoats.[1]

The letters were published in The New-England Courant fortnightly, and amused readers. Some men wrote in offering to marry Ms. Dogood, upon learning she was widowed.[1]

Eventually, James found out that all fourteen of the letters had been written by his younger brother, which angered him. Benjamin left his apprenticeship without permission and escaped to Philadelphia.


39 posted on 05/01/2022 3:09:21 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

“The 14 Mrs. Silence Dogood letters were first printed in 1722.”

Ben Franklin secretly identifying as a middle-aged woman, fully 300 years ago.

What a country.


40 posted on 05/01/2022 3:15:09 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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