Words, phrases and Free Speech
It was 1978 when the ACLU defended a neo-Nazi group's right of free speech. At the time the group chose to march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie. The ACLU of that time was being entirely consistent in defending the neo-Nazi's in the same way they had defended Civil Rights marchers a decade earlier. The ACLU paid dearly to stand up for free speech. It lost approx 30,000 of it's more progressive members. Much has changed since then. The ACLU most likely wouldn't take the stand it took then. Dara Lind of Vox wrote an article on the changing times a few years ago:
"But these aren’t the same Nazis who marched through Skokie, and this isn’t the same progressive movement — and it isn’t the same ACLU, either. The backlash has already spurred other ACLU chapters to declare that they don’t believe free-speech protections apply to events like the one in Charlottesville, and led the ACLU’s national director, Anthony Romero, to declare the group will no longer defend the right to protest when the protesters want to carry guns."
https://www.vox.com/2017/8/20/16167870/aclu-hate-speech-nazis-charlottesville
Today the American left is dedicated to controlling speech, rather than observing First Amendment rights. The use of words to shape the narrative has been their primary weapon for a few decades. They even created the label "progressive" to describe themselves. There is nothing progressive about the modern day liberal. They are authoritarian by nature and they employ the language of Orwell's 1984 . Here are a few examples of their Newspeak : multiculturalism, diversity, fairness, equity, inclusion, inclusiveness and empowerment. That entire word grouping is devoted to the creation racial quotas, discrimination against whites, special rights and preferential treatment for protected minorities.
What is far worse is the banning of free speech and the limitations progressives seek to place on it. Many of our universities have set up codes outlawing racist, sexist or otherwise hostile speech.Several democracies have already begun banning certain types of speech, such as the advocacy of racist ideas. Canada and Germany are two examples. Such laws are an infringement of liberty and in the case of the United States - a violation of Constitutional rights. Aside from the law, such concerns aren't even realistic. The intolerant extremes are the rarity in the United States.
The challenge for the rest of us will be to preserve out freedoms.
It's the most offensive type of speech that puts us all to the test.
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