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A couple of the signers are already backtracking as they get attacked, notably Matt Yglesias of Vox.
"Harper’s Magazine has published a letter on “open debate” which is signed by 150 journalists, writers and academics, from Noam Chomsky to J.K. Rowling. The letter itself is relatively brief and takes plenty of shots at the right on the way to making a point about left’s growing fondness for cancel culture....
The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought...."
The open minded, diverse, welcoming, inclusive left want to make sure they shut down anyone not in lock step with them. Ironic.
Even worse than the irony is the fact they defend their desire to shut down anyone who does not think like them. They openly shame people, hurt people and in some cases, kill people.
The open minded, diverse, welcoming, inclusive left want to make sure they shut down anyone not in lock step with them. Ironic.
Even worse than the irony is the fact they defend their desire to shut down anyone who does not think like them. They openly shame people, hurt people and in some cases, kill people.
And the most frightening thing is that if Biden wins, the shaming and silencing and insulting - even the very threat to one’s livelihood - towards those who do not support the upside-down values and falsehoods of the left will be fully sanctioned by the White House.
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The open minded, diverse, welcoming, inclusive left want to make sure they shut down anyone not in lock step with them. Ironic.
Even worse than the irony is the fact they defend their desire to shut down anyone who does not think like them. They openly shame people, hurt people and in some cases, kill people.
It is getting tiresome. Something needs to happen.
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And the most frightening thing is that if Biden wins, the shaming and silencing and insulting - even the very threat to one’s livelihood - towards those who do not support the upside-down values and falsehoods of the left will be fully sanctioned by the White House.
Lord save us from a Biden win.
Amen.
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