We're in a very dark period where people are fine with censoring viewpoints that they don't agree with, especially around political boundaries. It's very unfortunate - censorship is censorship, plain and simple.
It's so bizarre how the left controls the house, the presidency, academia, the mainstream media for the most part, all of the big tech companies, but complain that the Republicans are the fascists.
We either have free speech, or we have fascism. And it's not the right trying to censor and cancel people, it's the authoritarian left who feel like they know better than everyone else. Very irritating as a libleft, because they read my disagreement as being right leaning rather than freedom loving.
It's not a left right issue, we do need to have sex-ed in schools, you need to talk about homosexuality, and the problem with nationalism even the american flavour. I don't even think those are issues that all left leaning people agree on. Dig deeper.
Just as if logic was working. Last time I checked from the Smithsonian woke bullshit, logic itself is racist... Oh well.
> we do need to have sex-ed in schools, you need to talk about homosexuality
Over my dead body. My children will not hear about any trans / Kinsey reports bullshit, or even CRT clusterfuck for that matter.
I have tried. It simply doesn't work. Proudly censorious authoritarian leftists. They see themselves as the good guys saving the world, and if that means free speech has to go, then so be it.
I'm reminded of this quote:
>“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Are you sure about that?
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/parler-banning-leftist/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/conservatives-love-c...
You can invent whatever moralizing obligation you want, but I don’t think it’s reasonable expect an organized effort from the {$outgroup} community to defend the rights rights of the people who designated them the outgroup.
> People are disinclined to support your rights if they see you as advocating against theirs.
By that argument, the Libertarians would be loved by everybody, but they aren't, because it's no longer a discussion on ethics, it's a fight over holly dogma. The ACLU will no longer support people on the Right in the name of Free Speech. Lines in the sand have been dug by the left, and they no longer crosses them. The right, (ie. the MSM's fascist) however do it all the time because they are the most open ones. If you are a gay 1sh amendment absolutist, you aren't gay, you're just a nazi. The ancients Greeks are no longer the bases of our culture/civilization, they're esclavagist.
This is false[0]. After that, we appear to be getting into Godwin's law territory, so I'm gonna leave it alone.
[0] https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/defending-speech-w...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html
The ACLU actively advertised in the Kavanaugh nomination.
Then an ACLU trans lawyer stated: “Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.”
Then in 2018 they covertly backed Stacey Abrams (democrat).
Then an ACLU editor wishes death on a republican senator.
and so on... The ACLU has very much been gangrened by the marxist.