Posted on 10/05/2019 2:33:35 PM PDT by ransomnote
President Trump is a threat to the First Amendment, says the New York Times, while repeatedly running op-eds arguing against the First Amendment.
Its current masterpiece is, Free Speech is Killing Us.
Its innovative argument notes that ideas can lead to violence. Well then, if we're going to stop violence, we have to shut down the flow of ideas until we figure out what's going on here, right?
In 2019, this is what the New York Times has come up with.
Noxious speech is causing tangible harm. Yet this fact implies a question so uncomfortable that many of us go to great lengths to avoid asking it. Namely, what should we — the government, private companies or individual citizens — be doing about it?
Oh lots of people have no problem asking it. Nazis, Communists, assorted other well-wishers who want a totalitarian state.
The Founders were not unaware of the simple reality that bad actions can begin with bad speech. Their solution wasn't mass censorship and thought control. It says something about the degeneracy of liberals into leftist that this is the New York Times solution.
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Years ago someone said something like “if Tim McVeigh had parked his truck in front of the NY Times building he would have been considered a hero”.
We do not have journalists pursuing truth wherever it leads, informing the public, and sounding the alarm when necessary.
(This is the free press our founding fathers prescribed, which is supposed to act as a another check on government power.)
But instead, what we have, is the Goebbels Mushroom(Keep 'em in the dark. Feed'em bullsh*t.)Media. And because there is no press, corrupt government has been running rampant, and trampling over the rights and freedom of our citizens.
A true press (as the founders called for), informing the public, is the first step toward healing our nation.
Censorship, (as NYT calls for), only increases anger, and causes further division.
Not to mention it raises suspicion that those trying to silence differing opinions, have something to hide .
That does nothing to promote healing.
People need to be free to express whatever they want, and work things out among themselves.
How can we find common ground if some are being silenced?
Our founders were geniuses to understand the importance of free speech. Too bad the NYT doesn't.
This is a reversion to tribal morality, that anything that violates social norms is a literal threat to the community.
This is the moral reasoning Islam uses to equate blasphemy and open dissent of Shariah mandates with attempted murder of all believers .... and justifies executing them to protect society.
This is a reversion to tribal morality, that anything that violates social norms is a literal threat to the community.
This is the moral reasoning Islam uses to equate blasphemy and open dissent of Shariah mandates with attempted murder of all believers .... and justifies executing them to protect society.
This is a reversion to tribal morality, that anything that violates social norms is a literal threat to the community.
This is the moral reasoning Islam uses to equate blasphemy and open dissent of Shariah mandates with attempted murder of all believers .... and justifies executing them to protect society.
You hear the same emotional foundation when someone says “you’re invalidating our existence” or even “you’re killing us” when you challenge social orthodoxy. They equate the emotional upset with attempted murder - and that would allow them to kill you in self-defense or for their tribe’s protection.
This is a reversion to tribal morality, that anything that violates social norms is a literal threat to the community.
This is the moral reasoning Islam uses to equate blasphemy and open dissent of Shariah mandates with attempted murder of all believers .... and justifies executing them to protect society.
You hear the same emotional foundation when someone says “you’re invalidating our existence” or even “you’re killing us” when you challenge social orthodoxy. They equate the emotional upset with attempted murder - and that would allow them to kill you in self-defense or for their tribe’s protection.
This is a reversion to tribal morality, that anything that violates social norms is a literal threat to the community.
This is the moral reasoning Islam uses to equate blasphemy and open dissent of Shariah mandates with attempted murder of all believers .... and justifies executing them to protect society.
You hear the same emotional foundation when someone says “you’re invalidating our existence” or even “you’re killing us” when you challenge social orthodoxy. They equate the emotional upset with attempted murder - and that would allow them to kill you in self-defense or for their tribe’s protection.
It shows how liberals have raised political dogma to a literal matter of faith. And it lays the foundation for death to the infidel.
This is a reversion to tribal morality, that anything that violates social norms is a literal threat to the community.
This is the moral reasoning Islam uses to equate blasphemy and open dissent of Shariah mandates with attempted murder of all believers .... and justifies executing them to protect society.
You hear the same emotional foundation when someone says “you’re invalidating our existence” or even “you’re killing us” when you challenge social orthodoxy. They equate the emotional upset with attempted murder - and that would allow them to kill you in self-defense or for their tribe’s protection.
It shows how liberals have raised political dogma to a literal matter of faith.
Yes...vampires, sunlight, etc.
bkmk
I would encourage everyone to read the book Revolutionary Dissent by Solomon.
I just finished it. The book lays out exactly how free speech came to be in this country in the Colonial and Rev War eras.
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