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Posted on 09/01/2021 3:56:14 PM PDT by MtnClimber
They've decided that free speech is a hoary, harpsichord-y, un-hip notion they'd like to see stuffed down the memory hole.
National Public Radio, a government-funded outlet, is now shilling against free speech.
According to Matt Taibbi, who is himself on the left, via Substack:
The guests for NPR's just-released On The Media episode about the dangers of free speech included Andrew Marantz, author of an article called, "Free Speech is Killing Us"; P.E. Moskowitz, author of "The Case Against Free Speech"; Susan Benesch, director of the "Dangerous Speech Project"; and Berkeley professor John Powell, whose contribution was to rip John Stuart Mill's defense of free speech in On Liberty as "wrong."
That's about right for NPR, which for years now has regularly congratulated itself for being a beacon of diversity while expunging every conceivable alternative point of view.
The pampered princelings of the outlet featured no voices in defense of the First Amendment.
SNIP
And here's a detail showing how sleazy they are:
Because, they say, we now know that people can be harmed by something other than physical violence, Mill (whose thoughts NPR overlaid with harpsichord music, so we could be reminded how antiquated they are) was wrong, and we have to recalibrate our understanding of speech rights accordingly.'
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And our taxes fund this.
If NPR had to compete with the market, then they would be out of business.
Will they do an episode disparaging the 13th amendment?
Are the ruling elites looking to move in for the kill?
Arnold Schwarzenegger:Screw your freedom.
Does that answer the question?
The left trashed the Constitution when the Republicans read it in 2011 after winning.
NOW they do! Until now, the First Amendment was sacrosanct beyond all others to the Left. Now that they think they have whip-hand, they want to do away with it.
Their opinions need elimination...
Inside every hardcore liberal is a fascist waiting to emerge.
Fixed it
And these empty headed morons think they will be spared the eventual horrors of a one world Marxist dictatorship.
I’m for disparaging the 19th and 17th.
Will they do an episode disparaging the 13th amendment?
“Useful idiots” are...well, idiots.
As I am free to listen to what I want, I haven’t listened to National Palestinian Radio since Click and Clack went off the air. Unfortunately, my taxes still support such garbage.
Fixed it further
As they did when the GOP was in control.
To hell with that, and with them.
Same here. I did listen to the re-runs. I loved the puzzler.
I would listen to "Wait Wait, don't tell me" but that became very unfunny. "Orange man bad" was the never-ending laugh line.
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