Let me play you the saddest song on my smallest violin.

Contrapoints can listen too.

https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/12iNLSQl1d/contrapoints-becomes-pro-free-sp/c/

ContraPoints becomes pro free speech after "YouTube has age-restricted my video". Local Girondin very surprised Robespierre's Montagnards would betray her

Book:

https://archive.ph/fKPMo https:// www. amazon. com/Case-Against-Free-Speech-Amendment/dp/156858864X

The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent Hardcover – August 13, 2019

by PE Moskowitz  (Author)

A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech--and how we can reclaim it.

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James Allen

4.0 out of 5 stars A very unfortunate title

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2020 Verified Purchase

This book has an unfortunate title, because it is not really a case against free speech. It's more a socialist/Marxist analysis of the concept of free speech. It would more properly be called something like "The Truth about Free Speech," but of course I think the title as it is will sell a lot more books than the title I suggest here. I guess Marxist thought needs capitalism to sell its books.

Anyway, the basic point of the book is a socialist one: why are we running around touting free speech when some people are oppressed, don't have basic needs met, and are subject to state violence? Does free speech matter in that case? And in fact the wealthy and powerful define free speech in their favor, and the oppressed need more than speech, they need action. But of course taking action such as civil disobedience crosses the line, and is banned and those who engage in it are punished. So free speech remains meaningless because all that is really free is the rights of the rich and powerful to continue to stomp on your neck.

Ultimately, I remain unconvinced. Conservatives are on an anti-free speech tear, with the campus watch lists designed to intimidate anyone who they deem not loyal enough to The Great State, and to ruin the careers of those who advocate for Palestinian rights. The fight against this intimidation is a free speech issue, and the oppressed need to be allowed to say their opinion freely, even if it doesn't involve bootlicking of the military or the cops or a piece of cloth. I see no other way to support these rights than to support free speech in general, for everyone, even if, especially if, it expresses an idea that offends the Orange illiterate one. (For those reading this in 2120 AD, the "Orange illiterate one" is a reference to Donald Trump, who I assume is still your president as you read this).

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p.e. moskowitz‏ @_pem_pem 5 May 2021

my college students are all terrified of saying the wrong thing and being cancelled. they hate liberals and liberal discourse. they feel like they are constantly policed, discourse-wise. and they're all communist-leaning, not conservatives. we have a real problem !!!!

unfortunately conservatives have captured this very real problem and made it about "pc culture". i argued that it was mostly about internalized surveillance and "gentrification of the mind" with the help of the works of @sarahschulman3

they were receptive to that. but the longer we pretend that this discourse policing is not a real thing, the more people will become reactionaries because they feel like they can't be them full selves in any 'left leaning' spaces

until this class i thought i was maybe internet poisoned and thus thought it was a bigger issue than it was, but the class was very passionate and concerned about it, and the vast majority of them are not internet discourse people!

this is at a continuing education program at a state school. these are not privileged people who just want license to be racist lol.

i always think about a line in a naomi klein book (i forget which one): the time when this identity-based discourse policing became really popular, the 1990s, was also the time of the largest consolidation of wealth and corporate power in the US. these things are not unrelated.

i also think this is a very different problem than popular fascists being protested on college campuses. there are two separate issues going on and we need to separate them!

in case u think i’m a hypocrite here is 2 tweets expanding on my book and this thread

https://archive.ph/wflJ1

p.e. moskowitz‏ @_pem_pem 6 May 2021

my book is about how conservatives have weaponized free speech to push fascism and how free speech issues actually affect the left. it never claimed that issues of suppression never existed

Beth Posting her Vaccination Card @bethheinly

Ummm didn’t you write a book in defense of this environment concerning what was happening on college campuses around the 2000’s?

that being said my opinion on things has changed slightly since writing the book. i thought “cancel culture” was a kind of overblown facet of the whole free speech debate when i wrote it and now i see it as a more real problem than i’d realized

i also think things have rapidly evolved — what conservatives termed “cancel culture” 5 years ago was fascists being protested on college campuses. that’s very different than left-leaning college students feeling stifled in the classroom. it’s two separate issues.

so rather than my book being wrong i think it needs an addendum! but i’m also willing to admit that the picture i painted was incomplete.

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