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The Real Threat to Free Speech Is Coming From the Right
(www.newsweek.com)
Always has been.
If you believe your partisan opponents are the only enemies of freedom, then you're already in chains.
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Also, water is wet.
And before someone says water isn't wet: cohesion
What, no way, that's craaazy...
We been knew
Duh
Since 2020, we've seen hundreds of "anti-CRT" and "Don't Say Gay" bills; thousands of book bans; efforts to defund libraries; campaigns to silence faculty, erode academic freedom, and gut university independence; laws that disenfranchise voters, criminalize protest, outlaw reproductive freedom, and seek to erase trans kids; the Jim Crow-styled expulsions of Black officials; a potential pardon for a convicted murderer because he killed a #BLM protester; and organized threats and harassment targeting DEI officials.
Free speech might only be able to achieve online, and make sure you remain ANONYMOUS
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...but, but, but they are the party for patriots and small government! They always talk about freedom-this, and liberty-that.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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