Posted on 12/03/2020 5:18:21 AM PST by Kaslin
A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. They boasted of obliterating once-normal boundaries in art, music, and literature to allow nudity, profanity, sexuality, and anti-American boilerplate.
Now?
The left is Victorian -- increasingly puritanical, regressive, and hypersensitive. Even totalitarian censorship and book-burning have weirdly become part of their by-any-means-necessary methods.
University of California, Berkeley, professor Grace Lavery was so outraged by author Abigail Shrier's latest book, "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters," that she went beyond the usual calls to ban the book. Lavery advocated burning Shrier's book.
"I DO encourage followers to steal Abigail Shrier's book and burn it on a pyre," Lavery tweeted last month.
Did the self-appointed liberal watchdog the American Civil Liberties Union step in to defend free expression?
No. One ACLU official poured gas on the book-burning fire.
"Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on," tweeted Chase Strangio, the ACLU's deputy director for transgender justice.
Note all of these melodramatic humanitarian verbs such as "steal," "burn" and "die."
Staffers at the Canadian branch of Penguin Random House recently confronted management over the company's publication of libertarian Jordan Peterson's new book "Beyond Order," a sequel to his earlier best-seller "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos."
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They never were to begin with.
Now that Conservatives have a small amount of media,free speech is a threat.
They were also for freedom of speech if it could be interpreted in anti-American/anti-Western Civilization ways, such as burning the American flag, anti-Christian Art (Piss Christ, anyone?), unlimited pornography, etc. They are against free speech when it comes to actual free speech.
You’re correct. This is an annoying false premise.
They've so convinced themselves that they are right, they know what's best, and that their views should be shared by everyone ("oh wouldn't it be wonderful!" {gag}) that they will support extreme measures to make everyone "see the light." That's the fascist in them.
A lot of them are so ignorant and self-unaware that they don't even realize it. I could almost pity them. However, most of them know their world view is full of contradictions, double standards, and authoritarian behavior. They don't care. They're so convinced they're right they've talked themselves into the ends justifies any means. This makes them extremely dangerous. They actually think they're the good guys, they're doing the right thing. People can justify all kinds of horrors when they go down that path.
Love VDH, but that title needs a big Captain Obvious standing beside it.
Democrats are champions of suppression of expression..
> They never were to begin with.
EXACTLY what I was gonna say!
No kidding.
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