Posted on 05/09/2022 5:24:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan
In recent weeks I have been canceled by Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, all without explanation.
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Long may The Epoch Times—and those few others like it—thrive. And thank you so much to the readers who keep them alive!
Nevertheless, this is all starting to remind me of the Soviet Union that I visited twice on cultural exchanges during the early glasnost (in the late ’80s). In fact, the America of today has for some time.
I remember visiting two apartment buildings that were named Screenwriter I and II. They housed favored writers, screenwriters or not, and were sought after because, I was told, they contained the best medical clinics in Moscow on the ground floor.
In the Soviet Union, decent medical care was only available to party officials and others—scientists and cultural workers—who played along.
Writers who didn’t had to find other access. The greatest writing of Soviet times was the clandestine samizdat (literally “self-publishing” in Russian), those who obviously had the courage to buck a vicious system—the Solzhenitsyns, the Mandelstams, and so forth. Financial remuneration, not to mention the best medical care, was not for them.
Of course, we are building our own more open-minded structures, some in publishing, others in film. They all have good intentions. But for the most part, we are only allowed to preach to the choir. We are kept off in a corner, segregated.
Somehow this must be overcome. We must be able to reach the masses because we are the masses, not them.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Yet here we are, speaking freely.
Why would the writer have to identify as anything ?
just stupidness
For now.......
So long as we have Jim Robinson.
“that there is no “misinformation”
“misinformation” as government defines it also includes information that, while true, can lead you to wrong conclusions as defined by the government.
When we “prove” something is not misinformation by demonstrating it’s accuracy, it means nothing to them. They already knew it was true.
Just sickening that such an acclaimed writer as Roger L. Simon is blackballed like this.
For those not acquainted with his career, give his Wikipedia entry a look.
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Normally, due to political correctness, transliteration is verboten. Instead we would have seen the word in Cyrillic making it appear as gibberish to most non-Russian speakers.
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