Posted on 07/05/2022 5:58:28 AM PDT by arthurus
Once governments normalize censorship and the punishment of points of view, free expression is firmly stamped with an expiration date.
Whenever censorship slithers back into polite society, it is always draped in the mantle of "good intentions." Fifteenth-century Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola's "bonfire of the vanities" destroyed anything that could be seen to invite or reflect sin. The notorious 1933 Nazi book burning... in Berlin torched some 20,000 books deemed subversive or "un-German". During Communist China's decade-long Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and '70s, the vast majority of China's traditional scrolls, literature and religious antiquities went up in smoke.
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What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats are doing to us.
Excellent Article. I posted the entore text on Social Media.
Shurk does a great job relating current woke censorship to totalitarian movements in history.
And he is right.
Bring on that Red Tsunami! MAGA!
Free speech is always the greatest threat to people with power be they Democrats or liberal billionaires. They will use all their power to stiffle the speech and the thinking behind it.
The criminals are threatening honest people with jail.
Excellent article.
Well, that's pretty gross exaggeration, but they're heading in that direction.
Anybody who thinks a reign of terror could not happen in America is NUTS!
They didn’t start right off with the camps.
And you’re right, we are heading in that direction.
We are currently in the dehumanization phase, and you can see it’s taking hold.
The 2nd amendment scares them to death.
Yes. Afraid so.
Exactly; we are at stage VI which is dehumanization.
(Look up the “10 stages of genocide” by Dr. Gregory Stanton.)
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