I’ve been going after the political right because the now dominate the White House and Congress. They’ve long dominated Texas politics. Time to look at a problem emanating from the left. There’s lots of violence by left-wingers at demonstrators. They are referrerd to as anit-fa and anarcho-punk. However, it is a lame response and to the murder of a unarmed white female anti-racist by a neo-Nazi to raise the issue of violence by both sides. Violence, murder, lynching, etc. have a long history in Nazism and white supremacy. From pictures and videos it appears to me that the right-wingers are much more likely to show up at demonstrators with firearms, and masks. Be that as it may, murder and violence are wrong no matter who does it.
Free speech is constantly under attack from both the left and right in this country. America’s largest universities are dominated by left-wing politically correct leaders and students. See FIRE for a more complete picture of the attacks on free speech in higher education.https://www.thefire.org/
Liberal academics turn out papers on ‘microagression’ and how harmful it is to minorities. A recent paper said that being subject to hate speech creates physical harm to the body of the victim. Looks like they are setting up a challenge to existing First Amendment protection for hate. They’d love to take away your Second Amendment rights too. Shame on these left-wing authoritarian hypocrites.
Here’s a great piece from the libertarian website reason.com.
"No Free Speech for Fascists!" It's a motto you see on pre-printed signs at protests, including at yesterday's rallies in reaction to the violence and death in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend. Paired with a flood of invective against the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for the group's support of Unite the Right's right to stage a rally at the city's statue of Robert E. Lee in the first place, they make for a troubling trend. . .
But if fascists are to lose their free speech rights, someone must take them. And if you believe, as many of the counter-protesters do, that the white nationalists and their brethren were emboldened by the presence of a man in the White House who sees them as part of his coalition, then why on God's good green earth would you want to turn around and hand that very man the right to censor anyone whom he labels fascists? Because I can tell you right now, the list of folks that Trump and the restive-but-still-Republican Congress would like to silence sure won't look like the list those sign-wavers have in mind.
The people wielding "No Free Speech for Fascists" placards might as well be holding up signs saying "No Free Speech for Muslims." And in fact, many on the right have been making just that argument against the ACLU for years now, arguing that exceptions to our free speech principles should be made to curtail extreme speech by Muslim religious figures or activists in the name of security, or even (in the stupidest variant of the idea) that the ACLU is part of a radical Islamic conspiracy. But if the justification for restrictions on the speech of one man is violence committed by another, there can be no end to list of people who may be silenced in the name of order.
I have my beefs with ACLU too. I wish they'd see the importance of defending free speech even in situations where money is changing hands—to my way of thinking, the group has lately been on the wrong side of a few debates over freedom of conscience and association in the commercial realm. But the ACLU's work on speech in the public sphere is unbeatable. They did the right thing to let Unite the Right gather in Charlottesville. Sticking up for free speech for fascists doesn't mean you love fascists, it means you love free speech.”
http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/14/no-free-speech-for-fascists-is-a-bad-dan
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