you can now go to jail in Canada for simply saying you dont believe an event happened
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I'm a big believer in freedom, but I wouldn't mind giving right wing authoritarianism a turn at the wheel for a while since the left is doing it. It's only fair.
I'll get smacked by whichever side is at the helm, but I'm pretty sure the right will smack me less than the left.
Given the left's moral posturing, you might be correct, but there are elements of the right which are entirely moralistic as well. I think CS Lewis had the right of it:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
would be an interesting conundrum indeed, were it not proven natural law that the third-position-type-"right"'s pragmatic and sensible morals more often than not do truly lead to good outcomes.
puritan-style tongue searing (or would it be finger searing?) if you so much as type Jesus with a lowercase J might be the image that the term "right-wing authoritarianism" evokes, but personally i think stuff like that is just plain insane, which means it can be rather neatly lumped in with the left which is equally insane. it definitely should not be the image of what we refer to as "the right" and which cannot be seen anywhere in popular society today, since that sort of ideology stands for a reasonability which would forbid needless tyranny like cutting your ears off if you listen to nigger rap.
we may, however, confiscate the fire mixtape, and recommend some mozart. i don't think anyone could blame us for that.
Mozart is colonialist, fascist adjacent, imperialist music.
Thus, I approve.