And these days freedom of speech needs defenders, for when I look around, I find it under attack everywhere. Blacklisting, cancel culture, libraries being closed or defunded, classic works of literature being banned or bowdlerized or removed from classrooms, an ever growing list of “toxic” words the mere utterance of which is now forbidden no matter the context or intent, the erosion of civility in discourse. Both the Rabid Right and the Woke Left seem more intent on silencing those whose views they disagree with, rather than besting them in debate. And the consequences for those who dare to say things deemed offensive have been growing ever more dire; jobs lost, careers ended, books cancelled, “deplatforming.”
Full blog post here: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/08/15/let-his-voice-be-heard/
Centrism is cowardice. The Rabid Right is trying to silence pedophiles and child butchers. There is no debate to be had. There is a war for the soul of the west. One side wins; one side ceases to exist.
Basically what I was going to point out:
Nothing to do with free speech. Every public library could close tomorrow and free speech remains the same. But public libraries are a good thing to have, generally speaking. But why are they being closed and defunded? Because no one is going?
Or because the right is mad that they have an LGBT kids section and drag queen story hour? Are you equating my desire to not fund sexual child grooming with cancel culture? If that's the "rabid right", then we aren't really having a conversation.
Grrmartin is a huge progressive and not just cause he's fat
They see teaching hedonism and perversion as part of a healthy children's education. To them, not teaching about masturbation, pleasure, and promiscuity is abuse.
Libraries are bastions of Leftist activism now and they're outdated in the age of the internet anyway. They only exist to give internet access to the homeless.
Libraries also support a whole infrastructure of left wing authors with taxpayer dollars. Lib librarians all buy left wing authors and ban right wing authors. This guarantees all left wing authors enormous sales.Taxpayer dollars are used to funnel enormous sums of money to the Left, while shutting out the right.
https://youtu.be/Kg7i7f31hgk?t=173
I agree 100%. Anyone who includes "the right" in any criticism about censorship and silencing is a sissy trying to appear "fair." We all know the reality of censorship, that it is a tool of the left.
What is the right doing? Demanding PUBLIC schools not include pornography or pedophile grooming literature in their lessons or their libraries--not exactly a wholesale throttling of dissent.
I needn't repeat the consequences of publicly speaking against the transsexual movement or feminism or BLM or antifa.
Other than some retarded tradcon scandals...
Centrism may be cowardice, but this take is far more based than I was expecting from a septuagenarian working-class Jersyite with a life-long history of leaning left.
The progressive Left doesn't read, and even if they did, he can always do the 'marginalized person said it' shuffle, pay his dues again with some bad-mouthing of the Right, and he's off to the races.
Nobody's dredging up 25-year-old quotes from Leftists to attack them with, so long as they still serve the will of the Party.
I don't think the Right is trying to silence anyone at all. The main thing the Right does now is DRAW ATTENTION TO left wing speech.
Shit like "keep your weird politics out of the classroom" has nothing to do with freedom of speech, since nobody is EVER entitled to free speech at their job. Nobody is even trying to kick these trannies and groomers off of Twitter, if anything the Right is reposting them to show the world the ugly truth.
Well I’m surprised he called out the woke left. Granted he bent the knee to these people. He was the MC at the Hugo’s or nebulas and people were triggered because he mispronounced names! He apologized