Posted on 09/15/2017 7:08:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Twitter cofounder Evan Williams has said: “I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place, I was wrong about that.”
Yet, we cannot speak freely, can we? Say the wrong thing and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will label you a hatemonger. The nation’s founders envisioned free speech as a guardrail against the republic veering down an embankment, thinking that if speech were free, someone would be there to call BS when the nation went places not intended or imagined.
Yet, today, every progressive (read Democrat, liberal, or leftist) has his nose pressed into everybody else’s business lest someone think or say something that might melt a snowflake. We can’t have anyone ever offended, or embarrassed, or in any way made uncomfortable by unapproved thought.
It is in this way, the language has changed. Whereas the word “violence” has always meant actions that include actual physical violence, progressives have transmogrified “unapproved thought” from a mere difference of opinion into an integral component of the definition of violence.
Therefore, the violence of unapproved thought can now be met with actual violence because actual violence is not really violence if it is committed against someone with the wrong ideas and the gall to speak those ideas aloud.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Call the thought police.
Yep more and more the Left seeks to silence and will use violence to do so. Be curious to see what the right actually does with this.
Get a time machine. Bring forward virtually any US politician from before 2000 and show them what our society has become and they would all say: “How the heck did you screw it up so badly?”
My answer: After 9/11 we lost the war, and Radical Islam has found a million ways to hollow us out since then. They have billions in oil wealth, and they have used that money skillfully to destroy western civilization.
Islam and leftism are both totalitarian.
Yet in the leftist Hispanic town of Coachella CA, the local high school team is named the Arabs.
The SPLC is a dangerous and repressive organization that uses criminal racketeering techniques to intimidate people and the language they use slyly encourages violence against anyone who dissents from their leftist goals.
They should be labeled a hate organization and be forcibly disbanded.
We either fight the totalitarians now or we surrender to live in a Stalinist hellhole forever.
You're right about the SPLC - they're the nexus...
The left’s criminally insane.
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