The War Over Free Speech Escalates
Much is written these days about free speech.
Liberals call any speech with which they disagree hate speech, and seek to criminalize it. Donald Trump is a target of their disdain. While running for the presidency, they rob him of his civil rights, putting him under a gag order for criticizing his prosecutors, in a political show trial in New York, for a victimless crime.
Conservatives seem helpless in confronting this assault on the First Amendment. Out of loyalty and perhaps fury, they flock to Trump’s candidacy in the belief that he is a proxy, representing all of us in the fight to protect our rights. But free speech absolutists have little wriggle room. After all, do pro-Hamas groups have the right to shout, “From the River to the Sea,” even though it is code for eradication of the Jews?
I’ve always found the term “progressives” shamefully self-serving, painting radicals as the champions of progress while the rest of us, presumably, are like those Luddites of the Industrial Age, smashing machines in hopes of forestalling the inevitable.
By whatever name, these radicals have made great progress in imposing a neo-Marxist agenda on an unsuspecting public. With their embrace of transgenderism, encouraging children to listen to woke teachers rather than caring parents, they are moving to destroy the nuclear family. With their open border, they are erasing national sovereignty, making patriotism an anachronism. By de-funding the police, they have made our cities hell-holes, in need of mass bailouts that will bankrupt us all. And by teaching Critical Race Theory in schools and universities, they have instilled in a new generation the Big Lie — that all whites are oppressors and all people of color are oppressed. That’s how Hamas, which has made no secret it intends to wipe Israel off the map by truly barbaric means, came to be known as victims. Many of the people who now trumpet this anti-western narrative are white, wearing Palestinian garb, as if filming a movie. How interesting that no one accuses them of appropriation.
How did this happen? The great advantage liberals have over conservatives, the reason they have been able to make this destructive sweep through our institutions even as many Americans object, is the media. Be it “legacy” media or social media, Democrat or RINO, left-wing influencers are leading the charge to curb any speech that differs from their own. Mind your pronouns, even if it comes at the expense of women’s sports or safety. And thanks to globalist governments, woke corporations and corrupt organizations like the UN, their megaphone is powered by high tech.
A backlash is building, and the war over speech will likely escalate. The issue that has propelled people all over the world to protest, to publicly scream “Enough,” is the destruction of their countries by a mass migration encouraged by the globalists to literally control the world. Many of the new arrivals have no interest in assimilating or respecting local customs, no interest in learning language or obeying social boundaries. Public outrage is growing because these migrants act like, well, invaders.
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