whoever wrote that is right
I wrote that but not sure I want to indulge this.
Here goes, against my better judgement, as succinctly as possible
- Censorship works if done correctly and done in tandem with a minimally competent public education and propaganda campaign. Americans in particular like to carry on about the Streisand Effect or Tipper Gore, but that is because censorship efforts were not really censorship efforts. Germany's censorship laws are the reason why the far-right has not risen to much greater prominence. But Germany did not resort to something as ineffective as "adult advisory, explict lyrics," they banned the sale and distribution, prosecuted people, and did so in tandem with decades of allied propaganda. Censorship works, both by limiting availability of harmful or subversive content AND by creating social stigma. Consider most people just go with whatever the prevalent, dominant viewpoint is, as demonstrated by the fact that Brown v Board of Education, Roe, Obergefell were all unpopular when first handed down, but simply handing down those decisions without serious opposition gave them the appearance of authority, and the sheep mostly followed right along.
- A lot of justification for free speech stems from John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, the Marketplace of Ideas in particular and the absurd notion that the best ideas always win out. I marvel that anyone can take that seriously. Just take a quick view of American popular culture and ask whether the best ideas win out. Some leftist pig opined that Avengers is in effect the "American Iliad." The sitcom Friends, vulgar gangster rap music, Katy Perry. The list goes on. Nazi Germany had Faust, Beethoven, Wagner, Hamlet. Victorian Britain had censorship but produced objectively superior literature and ideas.
- Even if I agree with the idea that freedom of speech is some sort of individual human right, the thought leaders behind these ideals had no way of anticipating things like multinational conglomerates concentrated in the hands of elite, hostile ruling class. Disney is not a person, despite the legal fiction that currently rules as stating it is so.
- Many things protected by the First Amendment are not really speech. Pornography is not speech, but a vice and should be comparable to prostitution, a form of sexual stimulation. It does not convey any intelligible idea or concept. Before the 60s, there was no controversy whatsoever that the 1st Amendment did not protect such content.
- I would go beyond that and assert things that promote race-mixing should be banned. Consider how Japan saved herself from European colonization, she expelled all European missionaries, crucifying some to make an (mostly European missionaries and some. Many misguided would say that the "human rights" of the Japanese were "violated" but in fact it spared Japan from colonization.
- it is pretty clear that the Cultural Marxists only intended to use these free speech ideals subversively, invoking it before the march through the institutions was complete, only to pull it right out from under us once they achieved cultural and political dominance. Now that they have captured all the cultural and political centers of power, they no longer parrot these ideas. Note that three supreme court justices have indicated they would not regard socalled hate speech as constitutionally protected speech, so if Biden and his handlers win, Alito and Thomas being as old as they are... the jig is about up regardless. So many who claim to be opposed to the left would not deign to restrict their "rights" even if they had an opportunity to do so. A major socalled conservative commentator has stated he would not prevent munchie parents for indoctrinating children with transgender bullshit, but would only prevent the surgeries (up until 18 ).
FUCK THAT--transgenderism is wrong, and once there is political power and will to do so, anyone who touts those ideas should get beaten to death (think of that opening scene in Shawshank Redemption where the guard brutalizes that inmate), or far worse. Goons and stormtroopers and right-wing death squads. A similar position of absolute intolerance should and must be embraced for other things that are morally repugnant, including pop media that pushes misgenation or promotes ghetto black undertow "culture."
