Right-Wing Hypocrisy - Free Speech

 Ed Simon Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

The shrieks of those who claim that we can’t hear them are ironically deafening. Boise State University professor Scott Yenor, upset that many people were also upset at his free speech and responded with their own free speech, casts himself as a martyr at First Things, describing his treatment as “inhumane and corrupting.” Michael Lind at Tablet conspiratorially proffers that there is a cadre of woke infiltrators, “acting with the specific goal of seizing control of institutions,” while at Unherd Jonathan Sumption makes the risible claim that the single greatest threat to free speech are LGBTQ activists, writing that “cancellation of speaking engagements and publication contracts” is de facto authoritarianism.

No, whiners, opposition, criticism, or divergent viewpoints are not authoritarian. That is democracy. That you see no one is buying your BS, is not censorship. Authoritarianism is willing to kill dissent like the Trumpers do.

It seems quaint that someone went to prison so that adults could be adults without being hypocrites. Ironically, what we have is the childish trying to pull us down to their level. That is the level of bullies and tyrants high on selfishness and whining because their privileged skins are no longer given the respect they think is deserved.

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