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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No one in the whole wide world disagrees with you about that. The question is whether the New York Times should be publishing his call for suppression of First Amendment rights with military force. You said yes. You don't just think he has a right to say what he likes -- you think it's important that other people be exposed to his intolerance for free speech. I am not holding my breath for you to say that the New York Times ought to be publishing the lefty critics of the Harper's letter, who are responding to speech they don't like with speech, rather than calling for guns in the streets.
Yes. And you are strangely tolerant of calls for the military to suppress speech.
I think you're just empirically wrong about this. Who has been silenced by the left?
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I am not strangely tolerant of articles calling for military suppression of protests. I am quite unstrangely in favor of allowing such views to be aired and rejected. I am similarly in favor of allowing the idiot left to call for deplatforming as often and loudly as it likes because there is a growing backlash to it which will cure it. But that only happens if we give it more airtime and attention so people can watch it become increasingly absurd.
People are both exhausted by these strident virtue signalers and sick of them. This is leading to them being branded as crazy and frivolous. They are increasingly being mocked, and what can be mocked can be ignored. And once ignored, it disappears.
Re the empirical thing, are you serious? Loads of public figures and media people are being silenced or forced to walk back uncontroversial statements. Just today, Bari Weiss quit the NYTimes under duress. Look it up.
Taibbi is very much the exception. He’s Teflon because he has the balls to say, “Don’t give a fuck.”
