Fighting Monsters: How Democrats are adopting rationales once used against the left – Jonathan Turley

Turley: "As someone who was raised in a liberal, politically active Democratic family in Chicago, one of the greatest disappointments of my lifetime has been to watch the Democratic Party fight against free speech, pushing both censorship and blacklisting."
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Giddyap
8 months ago

Free speech means that even despicable speech is allowed

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debtsor
8 months ago

Well, duh! Because, like communism, leftist policies go against human nature, and are so unpopular, that they can only be kept in place under by force. For example, covid policies were really unpopular in many places because they didn’t work: wearing masks that didn’t work, closing down public places didn’t stop the spread, forced vaccinations that didn’t stop transmission. The only way to keep these policies going is to censor, stifle speech, cancel people, threaten them with arrest or loss of their freedom or job.

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