For every conservative in America who is delighted that at least some of the purveyors of hate speech and misinformation on the woke left are at last being held accountable, there is another who still adheres to the ideals of free speech. As UFC CEO Dana White recently said on 60 Minutes, “Probably the most important speech to protect is hate speech.”
That diversity of opinion never surfaced among the left, however, over the nearly ten years during which alleged misinformation and hate speech were suppressed whenever they originated from conservatives. Whether they were hard right or just right-of-center but touching on forbidden topics and themes, they were shadow-banned, demonetized, deplatformed, and debanked. Almost nobody outside their circles of followers ever knew, and for people on the left who did know, they didn’t care.
To those of us who followed the systematic suppression of unapproved content, it seems incredible that anyone can believe our mainstream news sources, pundits, and journalists working for PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and others, who are now proclaiming we have entered an era of unprecedented authoritarian censorship. This is a brazen lie, but people believe it.
In a conversation last week with someone whose politics are centrist, perhaps slightly left-of-center, I was surprised to hear this lie regurgitated, verbatim. With genuine apprehension, if not terror, and presented to me as undeniable fact, was that President Trump and his minions have imposed government control over the media. Democracy is dead. God help us all. Etc.
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