Posted on 04/05/2021 2:32:53 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
The Left wants to ban “hate speech” using the powerful national institutions they now govern. They do not hide this intention but say so openly. Powerful tools—like Big Tech, a nearly unified press, and the national security state—give speech restrictionists the impression that this goal can and should be pursued. But exactly what kind of speech do they want to ban, and exactly how would this ban transform America?
“Hate speech,” on the surface, seems to mean racial epithets, slurs, or Holocaust denial. But such speech has already disappeared from America’s public square. There is no “hate speech” in any recognizable form anywhere in America outside of the bowels of the Internet or in rap music. If anything, America’s public square is governed by exactly the opposite tendency: corporate, media, educational, and social powers fiercely punish such utterances. The N-word is the only word in the English language which is forbidden from being uttered. And yet, calls to ban “hate speech” only increase.
The American Left is not interested in or concerned about racial epithets. In reality, “hate speech” is the words, thoughts, and judgments of the oppressor group, which marginalized groups claim harms their self-respect. The oppressor group, in virtually every case, is whites—especially white males, though white women also are carriers of “whiteness,” the original sin.
Banning or criminalizing hate speech means silencing the speech of oppressor groups, while amplifying the speech of marginalized groups. The marginalized must be to speak against, calumniate and malign the alleged oppressors and their institutions, for their self-respect comes to depend entirely on this. It is not only permissible, but required to state that the “greatest terrorist threat in this country is white men.” Every single sector of society amplifies such sentiments in varying degrees.
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I’ll condense this. The left has gone insane and intends to destroy anyone who disagrees their ever changing goal posts. The first step is the criminalization of any communication they don’t like.
“Ever changing” is the operative phrase. We are in a purity spiral.
As per part three of my tagline, TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.
In today’s environment, the truth is hate speech.
Go post some objectively verifiable facts, even with reference to solid sources, asserting anything which goes against the Left’s narrative, and see how long before you are de-platformed.
Facts like “blacks account for over 50% of homicide and robbery arrests, so it should not be surprising that there are a lot of incarcerated blacks”
And mentioning median IQ levels will start a riot.
America is becoming Nazi Germany. And unchecked, it will commit the crimes of Nazi Germany.
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