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7 Techniques Liberals Use to Silence Conservatives
Townhall.com ^ | March 16, 2018 | John Hawkins

Posted on 03/16/2018 5:56:48 AM PDT by Kaslin

Free speech has become a conservative idea by default because liberals don’t believe in it any more. Liberals have given up on the idea of coming up with the best argument and now work tirelessly to silence their opposition so they can win the argument by default. Liberals NEED to do this because their ideas don’t work very well in the real world and if their ideas are tested and evaluated logically, they will be rejected by most people. So, how do they get around that? 

1) Libsplaining: For every guy out there mansplaining, there are probably 500 liberals libsplaining what some conservative supposedly REALLY MEANT at exactly the same time. If you’re conservative, pretty much anything you say will be reinterpreted by liberals to mean something totally different. Against welfare because you think it encourages people not to work? You must hate black people. We need to cut wasteful government programs? You despise poor people. You weren’t in love with Trump, but really didn’t like Hillary, so you voted for him? You obviously want to turn America into Nazi Germany AND you hate women. None of this would be more than an annoyance except for the fact that liberals then take their completely nonsensical interpretation of what conservatives say and present it to the world as reality. This is how, for example, tens of millions of liberals who have probably never listened to Rush Limbaugh in their entire lives think he furiously spews lies and racist rants against the poor for three hours per day. Liberals seem to be practically incapable of taking common conservative beliefs at face value because that could lead them to intellectually engage in a debate about the best way to handle a problem, which could lead them away from liberal doctrine, which could….uh, YOU’RE A RACIST! THAT’S WHY. 

2) Violence: Why are the liberal fascists in ANTIFA violently protesting? They’re violently protesting that people they disagree with are allowed to speak at all. Incidentally, “people they disagree with” runs the gamut from Nazis to mainstream conservatives. Ultimately, the liberals who send death and rape threats to conservative women like Dana Loesch and Michelle Malkin have the same goal as ANTIFA. They want to use the threat of violence to convince them to quit and to intimidate other women who agree with them. The limits on it are determined in large part by what they believe they can escape punishment for doing. Not every liberal will get violent, but violent groups like ANTIFA would be nothing without friendly police departments and college campuses that turn a blind eye to their activities. When they think they can get away with it, liberals are perfectly comfortable with using violence to silence their political opponents. Keep that in mind when they demand that you give up your guns.

3) De-Platforming: If a conservative puts his opinion out there, but no one is allowed to hear it, does it really matter? Liberals have worked hard to take over newspapers, Hollywood and the schools not just to indoctrinate people with their views, but to make sure conservative views can’t get out. You’re now starting to see that same philosophy become more public at Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube (Owned by Google) as those social media giants become increasingly unfriendly ground for conservatives. If liberals can control whom you’re allowed to hear, they can control your thinking: 

4) Political Correctness / Safe Spaces / Microaggressions: Safe spaces and microaggressions are the little sisters of political correctness, but they all serve the same purpose. They’re designed to silence people who say things liberals don’t like because “Shut up, that’s why!” You saw a great example of this with James Damore at Google who used an open forum there to make scientifically supported arguments that liberals didn’t like about women in STEM and then was fired for it. That’s the perfect world for liberals. They win by default without having to defend their arguments at all because the other side isn’t allowed to say anything except liberal-approved talking points.  

5) Liberal Fakes: Besides Fox News and a few conservative newspapers, it’s rare to see a genuine conservative presence in the mainstream media. The vast majority of people who bring you the “conservative” point of view in the MSM are weak-kneed moderates at best and liberals at worst. The role of these conservatives, who seldom have any real support on the Right, is to agree with liberals about how terrible Republicans are while occasionally making watered-down arguments about issues that won’t offend the Left too much. People like David Brooks, David Frum, Brett Stephens, Max Boot, Michael Gerson, Jennifer Rubin, Kathleen Parker, etc. are not there to represent conservatives; they’re phonies there to give the false impression that even conservatives disagree with conservative policies. 

6) False Labeling: In America, there are certain groups that the vast majority of us simply ignore. We don’t pay any attention to their arguments because nobody much cares what an actual white supremacist, Nazi, Fascist or racist has to say. So naturally, if you listen to liberals, other than them, pretty much everyone is a white supremacist, Nazi, fascist or racist. They go on about it so much that you’d think we were simultaneously in the pre-Civil War Years, Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy all at the same time. Typically, the evidence for this Nazi renaissance in America is little more than the fact that there are people who disagree with liberal policies along with comments that would be shrugged off or ignored if a liberal had said them. 

7) The Ventriloquist Dummy: See Cindy Sheehan, the Parkland Kids, Graeme Frost and to a certain extent, even Barack Obama. Liberals LOVE to find someone you’re not supposed to criticize to stick up front when there’s a hot political issue. The latest ones are David Hogg and the other Parkland kids they’re putting on TV as much as possible to push for gun control. They make their arguments and…you’re not supposed to respond because other kids who may not have agreed with them at all, were killed. Meanwhile, David Hogg and company are exploiting their dead classmates to get on TV and repeat the same boring talking points every other liberal does. Despite the fact he was President, liberals even tried to do this with Barack Obama. Conservatives are opposing Obama’s gun control? Well, what do you expect since it was proposed by a BLACK MAN? Obama shouldn’t let ISIS run wild in Iraq. Of course you’re saying that since Obama is a BLACK MAN. Liberals treat being black like a get-out-of-criticism free card unless the black American in question is conservative. Then, the liberal knives come out. Otherwise, it’s shut up, shut up, shut up. 



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: censorship; fascism; hatespeech; mediabias; theleft
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To: Kaslin

Article seems spot-on, but I don’t see anything being done about it (like a law requiring Facebook and Google to respect the First Amendment)


21 posted on 03/16/2018 8:12:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Slyfox

Thanks for the new background wallpaper.


22 posted on 03/16/2018 8:55:59 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Kaslin

I do not think those three have much to worry about from ‘sexist’ men...


23 posted on 03/16/2018 9:34:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Avalon Memories

...or cares.


24 posted on 03/16/2018 9:34:38 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ctdonath2
... I have trouble addressing it.

Why would you WANT to address it?

They don't care what you think; they just want to... Shut You Up!!


Quit playing defense!


25 posted on 03/16/2018 9:36:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Don W

My distinct pleasure.


26 posted on 03/16/2018 10:12:45 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Elsie

I want to address it by finding a fast rhetorical way to shut _them_ up, dragging them - and observing bystanders - back to the absurdity of the Left’s accusations & demands.
For them, starting with an articulate (if misguided) comment and then quickly body-slamming subsequent debate into “you’re a poopy-head” is an effective technique for getting their message out and silencing opposition. Having a strong catchword like “libsplaining” (commandeering their own “mansplaining” epithet & slamming it back as an anti-liberal epithet they’ll instantly understand) angers them & puts them on the defensive, defusing their attack and forcing discussion back to the original absurdity while making clear they’re the vile one per their own terminology.

It’s an effective rhetorical block, making way for a good offense.


27 posted on 03/16/2018 10:18:19 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: Kaslin

bookmark


28 posted on 03/16/2018 10:18:44 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Last Dakotan

The one on the left looks like a guy.


29 posted on 03/16/2018 8:43:45 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: relictele

>>And will the extinction somehow choose victims by political affiliation?

Given the history of the Left, it very well may. Which is why thinking people believe in 2A.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM


30 posted on 03/19/2018 5:17:04 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: relictele
Good word smithing with "fainting-couch lefties."

I’m seeing a lot of You Conservative/Constitutionalist Scum Will Be Dead Soon And We’ll Do What We Like posts from fainting-couch lefties.

31 posted on 03/19/2018 6:35:27 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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bkmk


32 posted on 03/23/2018 2:19:33 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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