If you suppress the speech of people with whom you disagree it might come back to bite you.
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| Remember: There is no freedom of speech for hate speech. Hate speech is whatever Google/news media/academia say it is. |
Dig this tweet-and-response from yesterday.
It's just some tot with a stuffed animal and a flag and the Democrat focuses on the kid's race. I said "Democrat" because there is no way on Earth that this kind of thing will be associated with any other political party.
The implied hatred of the flag is there, too, but it's not as visceral, not as tribal. No one can say anything in public about this, at least no one in a position of authority. The press and ANTIFA and BLM would be all over them like a cheap suit. Oh sure, loonies like me can tweet back, but I'm a pipsqueak and Google hasn't yet shut down this blog for wrongthink.
The implied hatred of the flag is there, too, but it's not as visceral, not as tribal. No one can say anything in public about this, at least no one in a position of authority. The press and ANTIFA and BLM would be all over them like a cheap suit. Oh sure, loonies like me can tweet back, but I'm a pipsqueak and Google hasn't yet shut down this blog for wrongthink.
Memo to self: Backup the 'Post. I've got a lot of work stored here.
The Democrats are going to be obliterated in the 2018 midterms and there's probably not much they can do about it now. They can come up with messages and slogans and economic plans, but none of that matters. They're so deeply invested in tribal hate that nothing else will count. The cultural issues they've created will dominate and things like this will stick to them like glue.
The worst thing is that no one has any illusion that the tribal attacks are going to accomplish anything. I got a cheap blog post or two out of wondering if we should erect Confederate statues in poverty- and crime-infested areas and then take them down so things would improve, but only the completely insane think that cultural cleansing will do anything at all for us. This is Taliban territory; it's simply the Morality Police enforcing cultural orthodoxy. The Taliban approach only works when there are no private voting booths and votes have no meaning. That's not the case here.
The worst thing is that no one has any illusion that the tribal attacks are going to accomplish anything. I got a cheap blog post or two out of wondering if we should erect Confederate statues in poverty- and crime-infested areas and then take them down so things would improve, but only the completely insane think that cultural cleansing will do anything at all for us. This is Taliban territory; it's simply the Morality Police enforcing cultural orthodoxy. The Taliban approach only works when there are no private voting booths and votes have no meaning. That's not the case here.
And no one can warn them because to tell them why this is wrong only begs for attack.
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