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How the ‘hate speech’ conceit fuels political violence
Spiked ^ | 11th October 2025 | Heather Mac Donald

Posted on 10/12/2025 9:57:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Charlie Kirk was killed by a left that feels entitled to silence its enemies, by any means necessary.

American conservatives have experienced a range of emotions in recent years, starting with amazement – amazement at the hypocrisy of the left. How many times have we heard that US president Donald Trump’s attempts to reform universities threaten academic freedom? Many of the people making this accusation have run professors out of town for dissenting from campus orthodoxies, whether regarding ‘systemic racism’ or climate change. These new-found free-speech crusaders have required faculty to sign loyalty oaths to the cult of diversity. At best, Trump’s accusers stood by silently while such shunning and conformity enforcement occurred.

When we hear complaints about Trump’s assaults on the press and on the entertainment complex, we recall that the Biden White House pressured social-media companies to censor dissenting views on Covid lockdowns and election integrity. We recall that Disney and NBC fired Gina Carano and Megyn Kelly for their politically incorrect views.

How many times has it been said that President Trump is waging a culture war? Often Trump is only belatedly playing defence in the left’s assault on the norms that humanity has embraced from time immemorial. Someone who seeks to restore the understanding, say, that girl’s bathrooms are for members of the female sex only is not waging a culture war. The cultural warriors are the ones who demanded male access to female bathrooms in the first place.

Someone who seeks to prevent teachers from reading books about queer identity to third graders is not waging a culture war. The cultural warriors are the ones who want to destroy childhood innocence by rubbing children’s noses in the sexual obsessions of adults.

The second emotion of conservatives in recent years has been shock at the depth of...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: angermanagement; charliekirk; heathermacdonald; spiked
Truth is hate to people who hate truth.
1 posted on 10/12/2025 9:57:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: sauropod

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2 posted on 10/12/2025 3:05:12 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Truth is hate to people who hate truth.
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Exactly! And God is Truth.


3 posted on 10/13/2025 4:06:01 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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