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Blacklisting And Censorship Are Hallmarks Of Repressive Societies. Let’s Head Them Off At The Pass In America
The Federalist ^ | February 9, 2021 | Jane Hampton Cook

Posted on 02/09/2021 1:26:25 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 02/09/2021 1:26:25 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

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2 posted on 02/09/2021 1:31:51 PM PST by PGalt (confirmed: past peak civilization)
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To: Kaslin

Godwin’s law is obsolete.


3 posted on 02/09/2021 1:33:54 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kaslin
Blacklisting And Censorship Are Hallmarks Of Repressive Societies. Let's Head Them Off At The Pass In America

Blacklisting and censorship are the hallmarks of the Bolshevik Party of America AKA The Democratic Party of America.

4 posted on 02/09/2021 1:34:11 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Kaslin

Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w
“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”

“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”

“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”

“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”

“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”

Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo

“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”

Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff


5 posted on 02/09/2021 1:35:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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Ironic, coming from the Federalist, a website that dropped their comments section the minute a Lefty said “BOO!” to them.


6 posted on 02/09/2021 1:36:34 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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7 posted on 02/09/2021 1:37:21 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Kaslin

Historically, authoritarian regimes use fictitious tales of treason as the pretext for crushing their political rivals and cowing their citizens into submission.

Propaganda organs parrot the regime’s party line while less compliant media are censored.

America is in a bad place. Elections alone will not extricate us.


8 posted on 02/09/2021 1:44:54 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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Blacklist? Can we say that?


9 posted on 02/09/2021 1:52:34 PM PST by Old Yeller (Nana Pelosi is a manure salesman with a mouthful of samples. Thus the slurred speaking.)
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To: Kaslin

The media has became the instrument of the propaganda for the democrat party that believes it’s the political police.
The left hate for Trump is due to one thing he’s an outsider with the brains to make things greater in four years something the party of the left couldn’t do in it’s history of it’s party.
The left is doing all it can to save Fabianism.


10 posted on 02/09/2021 1:55:19 PM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Travis McGee; All

Thanks TM.

I’ve alway thought of myself as more of an anti-federalist, Emersonian - individualism, independence and self-sufficiency. (pg. 567 thought and culture; Encyclopedia of American History; Richard B. Morris.)

Isn’t it ironic, indeed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc


11 posted on 02/09/2021 1:59:19 PM PST by PGalt (confirmed: past peak civilization)
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*** head them off at the pass ***

That ship has already sailed..


12 posted on 02/09/2021 1:59:40 PM PST by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: Kaslin
I think we are way past the point of a peaceful revolution.

The Left wants to cancel us out of jobs, bank accounts and eventually existence, and they are seriously talking about "reeducation" (AKA "death") camps.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

13 posted on 02/09/2021 2:08:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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I meant resolution, not revolution.


14 posted on 02/09/2021 2:09:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: PGalt

Heads them off at the pass? Is this a joke... it’s getting more ridiculous by the day - people being fired and “cancelled” for what they said or wrote when they were teenagers? The next version of this demonic insanity is cancelling people for knowing people who said something the vile demonic scum don’t approve of... just wait.


15 posted on 02/09/2021 2:26:55 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Kaslin
Blacklisting And Censorship Are Hallmarks Of Repressive Societies. Let’s Head Them Off At The Pass In America

The pass was back that way, several years ago.
16 posted on 02/09/2021 2:32:39 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ifinnegan

Anyway, Godwin’s “law” was just a meaningless wordplay tool, designed to mimic well-known classical logical fallacies, created by some dude who disliked how easily progressive policies were mirror reflections of Hitler and nazi Germany.

They hated things like getting tricked into agreeing with the words of Hitler so often. So they created “Godwin’s Law”.

Meaningless, always has been.


17 posted on 02/09/2021 2:40:36 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Kaslin
",Blacklisting And Censorship Are Hallmarks Of Repressive Societies. Let’s Head Them Off At The Pass In America"

Good grief!
The stogy old federalist up there in its ivory towers is, apparently, clueless about what is happening to the common serfs now!

They, as usual, are about two or three decades behind present-day events...

18 posted on 02/09/2021 2:42:39 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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19 posted on 02/09/2021 2:52:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek; Jane Long; Travis McGee

20 posted on 02/09/2021 3:15:52 PM PST by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can’t use legal options cause Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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