Posted on 07/23/2023 5:00:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrats in Congress and their legacy media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and capacity to censor truth.
Democrats in Congress and their legacy media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and capacity to censor truth. The drop came during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony about vaccines and shows how frightened they are that he may out-primary their demented puppet Joe Biden and his cackling numbskull veep.
The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg tweeted:
“Despite the theater, the hearing raised thorny questions about free speech in a democratic society: Is misinformation protected by the First Amendment. When is it appropriate for the federal government to seek to tamp down the spread of falsehoods?”
Her comment was apparently inspired by Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schultz, who sought to hide his testimony from the public by moving it to executive session. When that failed, she and other Democrats on the committee peppered him with questions and denied him an opportunity to respond. Ranking Democrat Stacey Plaskett, in the context of an investigation of the censorship by the FBI and other agencies, said in her opening statement “I hope that [all members] recognize that there is speech that is not constitutionally protected,” referencing "hate speech." Her views, wrong as they are, echo similar censorship fan Senator Ben Cardin.
Professor Jonathan Turley took strong issue with this distortion of the First Amendment. Surveys show that college students are especially indoctrinated to believe the Schultz-Plaskett-Stolberg fallacy about the limits on free speech. (Students surveyed indicate it should be a criminal offense to misgender someone.) You might want to read his very sound rebuttal. Misinformation is protected, “simply stating something that others view as misleading or wrong...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Clarice ping
The fascists imagine exceptions to the first amendment that don’t exist, and even that misinformation is protected speech, regardless of how much malice it reveals.
“Students surveyed indicate it should be a criminal offense to misgender someone.”
That is their weak spot. Hit them there hard.
BTTT
If falsehoods were censored the mass media would not be allowed to say anything except “a” and “the”.
How much longer do we allow the decrepit and evil public education system including public colleges and universities to ruin our children before we demand the congress defund the US Department of Education, stop states from taking taxes for local unionized indoctrination centers and we give every family educational tax credit that follows the child and abolish tenure? This current system is broken beyond repair.
Even then they would be lying since they would only use those word to cover up the fact that there were "several" and "those".
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And yet they attack those who identify as helicoptors.
Which have been amalgamated and squishmashed into “duh”.
I’ll agree with anything you want as long as you give me a passing grade and pay my college loans.
“I’ll agree with anything you want as long as you give me a passing grade and pay my college loans.”
When I was growing up there was always this “mystery” that nobody could explain.
How could a high civilization like Germany turn into totalitarian monsters—with average citizens carrying out gruesome orders.
We now know the answer—carrots and sticks, carrots and sticks.
Very few people are immune to them.
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I’m watching Biden’s Jared Bernstein on Fox right now. He is spewing a long series of lies, misinformation, contrary to the facts.... and allowed to do so... no hard questions, no attempt to establish facts.
Most Americans are ignorant of the facts and this is the reason...and the mis-facts are not challenged or corrected.
For the most part our side also ignores the facts of the economy .... except when convenient to a narrow argument. We don’t necessarily mistate the facts... we argue with factless labels and emotions.
And diseducation... i made up a word for it.
In 1961 the prof assigned the class a paper. Pick a country in the (3d) world and explain why it will be significant in the next 10 years.
He gave me an F. I picked South Vietnam in 1961 to be significant in the next 10 years. In a long paper on the culture, religion, politics inside and outside S Vietnam I explained why. He said I should have picked Cuba or one of the emerging African nations.
Another Prof gave me a “C” on an “A” paper that he disagreed with. But it is very true that many (not all) profs have confirmation bias.
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