The Mizzou/Yale/PC/Free Speech Topic

[B-Man]

 

 

CHRIS QUEEN: The Left Is COMPLETELY CLUELESS About Conservatives’ Free Speech Concerns. 

 

“The reason they don’t understand is that they’re in control of most of the gatekeeping mechanisms of speech.

 

The left controls much of the media, the vast majority of cultural institutions, and the lion’s share of academia, so its voices are amplified, while conservatives find themselves shut out.”

 

They feel very threatened by the prospect of a slightly less uneven playing field.

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2022/11/03/the-left-doesnt-understand-conservatives-free-speech-concerns-n1642421

 

 

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[Doc]

1 minute ago, B-Man said:

 

                                              

 

 

The left conflating (school books with public library books)?  No way!

[B-Man]

Anti-free speech.

 

 

[Doc]

Liberals are such children.

[B-Man]

The “Stochastic Terror” Lie

The Left’s latest gambit for suppressing speech is built on preposterous grounds.

Christopher F. Rufo

 

I browsed the news recently only to discover that, according to a popular science magazine, I was responsible for the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi, husband to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

 

In an opinion piece for Scientific American, writer Bryn Nelson insinuated that my factual reporting on Drag Queen Story Hour was an example of “stochastic terrorism,” which he defines as “ideologically driven hate speech” that increases the likelihood of unpredictable acts of violence. On the night of the attack, Nelson argued, I had appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss my reporting, and, hours later, the alleged attacker, David DePape, radicalized by “QAnon” conspiracy theories about “Democratic, Satan-worshipping pedophiles,” broke into the Pelosi residence and attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer.

 

This is a bizarre claim that, for a magazine supposedly dedicated to “science,” hardly meets a scientific standard of cause and effect. There is no evidence that DePape watched or was motivated by Tucker Carlson’s program; moreover, nothing in my reporting on Drag Queen Story Hour encourages violence or mentions Nancy Pelosi, QAnon, or Satan-worshipping pedophiles. My appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight and DePape’s attack against Paul Pelosi are, in reality, two unrelated incidents in a large and complex universe. And Nelson, a microbiologist specializing in human excrement, is full of it.

But Nelson isn’t trying to prove anything in a scientific sense. Under the concept of “stochastic terrorism,” logic, evidence, and causality are irrelevant. Any incident of violence can be politicized and attributed to any ideological opponent, regardless of facts.

 

The scheme works like this: left-wing media, activists, and officials designate a subject of discourse, such as Drag Queen Story Hour, off-limits; they treat any reporting on that subject as an expression of “hate speech”; and finally, if an incident of violence emerges that is related, even tangentially, to that subject, they assign guilt to their political opponents and call for the suppression of speech. The statistical concept of “stochasticity,” which means “randomly determined,” functions as a catch-all: the activists don’t have to prove causality—they simply assert it with a sophisticated turn of phrase and a vague appeal to probability.

 

Though framed in scientific terms, this gambit is a crude political weapon. In practice, left-wing media, activists, and officials apply the “stochastic terrorism” designation only in one direction: rightward. They never attribute fire-bombings against pro-life pregnancy centers, arson attacks against Christian churches, or the attempted assassination of a Supreme Court justice to mere argumentation of left-wing activists, such as, say, opposition to the Court’s decision in Dobbs. In those cases, the Left correctly adopts the principle that it is incitement, rather than opinion, that constitutes a crime—but conveniently forgets that standard as soon as the debate shifts to the movement’s conservative opponents.

 

In recent years, the Left has not only monopolized the concept of “stochastic terrorism” but also built a growing apparatus for enforcing it. Last year, left-wing organizations and the Department of Justice collaborated on a campaign to suppress parents who oppose critical race theory, under the false claim that sometimes-heated school-board protests were incidents of “domestic terrorism.” Earlier this year, left-wing activists and medical associations called on social media companies and the Department of Justice to censor, investigate, and prosecute journalists who question the orthodoxy of radical gender theory. The obvious goal is to suppress speech and intimidate political opponents. “Stochastic terrorism” could serve as a magic term for summoning the power of the state.

 

https://www.city-journal.org/stochastic-terrorism-is-about-suppressing-free-speech#.Y3zoQ2HMgGA.twitter

 

 

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[Doc]

Hey, maybe all the terror is because Dems have been calling Repubs names for the past 6 years? 

[KDIGGZ]

2 minutes ago, Doc said:

Hey, maybe all the terror is because Dems have been calling Repubs names for the past 6 years? 

I'm not a republican but apparently I'm a racist bigot if I don't bow down to their idiotic socialist agenda. The president called me a terrorist the night before voting. Really, more than half of the country are terrorists? 54% of the country voted republican the next day. So much for unifying the country 😑

[B-Man]

 

[Doc]

15 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:

I'm not a republican but apparently I'm a racist bigot if I don't bow down to their idiotic socialist agenda. The president called me a terrorist the night before voting. Really, more than half of the country are terrorists? 54% of the country voted republican the next day. So much for unifying the country 😑

 

Consider the source.  Joke is a braindead corrupt POS.

[B-Man]

 

 

MSNBC Panel Gives a Preview of the Left's Strategy to Shut Down Debate on Sexualizing Children

 

 

Late Saturday night, a gunman identified as 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich opened fire in an LGBT-oriented nightclub in Colorado Springs; see A Shooting in a Colorado LGBT Club Leaves 5 Dead and 18 Injured, but It Gives Progressives the Chance to Say ‘Stochastic Terrorism.’

 

For such a highly visible shooting, we’ve been told very little about it. Some of what we were told seems to be contradictory. For instance, the first reports said the shooter used a “long gun.” From that phraseology, we can infer it was not a “scary black rifle.” But the first-person account of the man credited with stopping the shooter says Aldrich was using a handgun. Everyone is yelling that this was a “hate crime,” but as of yet, there has been zero evidence of that presented. That hasn’t stopped the fascists on the left from springing into action.

 

Yesterday, a well-known practitioner of “vigilante journalism,” NBC’s Brandy Zadrozny, leaped into action to blame the Twitter account @libsoftiktok; see Vigilante ‘Journalist’ Blames Libs of TikTok and Tucker Carlson for Colorado Mass Shooting. According to Zadrozny, showing these people expressing themselves in their own words without commentary led to the shooting.

She has since tried to walk that allegation back but with very little success.)

 

Monday night was pretty much a freak-fest on MSNBC as Nicolle Wallace’s panel all agreed that if you spoke out against sexual perversion and the sexual grooming of children, you, in the words of Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow — because you always need an obscure state legislator from a totally unrelated state and region to talk about any shooting — “can’t take part in this continued onslaught of words against the LGBTQ community and not look at this and have blood on your hands.”

 

https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/11/22/msnbc-panel-gives-a-preview-of-the-lefts-strategy-to-shut-down-debate-on-sexualizing-children-n662626

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[B-Man]

 

Democrats Propose Overturning The First Amendment

BY: DAVID HARSANYI

 

Adam Schiff and a group of Democrats introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision, one of the greatest free-speech victories in history. ( https://schiff.house.gov/imo/media/doc/amendment_to_overturn_citizens_united.pdf )

 

It’s just a political stunt, of course, as Schiff doesn’t have the votes. But it does reflect the authoritarian outlook of the contemporary left on free expression.

 

From the day the decision came down, 13 years ago this week, Citizens United was a rallying cry for those threatened by unregulated discourse. President Barack Obama infamously, and inaccurately, rebuked the justices during his State of the Union for upholding the First Amendment. Since then, Democrats have regularly blamed the decision for the alleged corrosion of “democracy.”

 

Recall, however, that Citizens United decision revolved around the federal government’s banning of a documentary critical of 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the Democratic primary elections. At the time, McCain-Feingold made it illegal for corporations (groups of freely associating citizens) and unions (ditto) to engage in “electioneering” a month before a primary or two months before a general election. It was outright censorship. In oral arguments, then-Solicitor General of the United States, now-Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan initially contended that the federal government had the right to censor books that “express advocacy.”

 

Also recall that “campaign finance” laws — speech codes, in reality — were written by politicians and defended by a media encumbered by any limitations on their own free expression. These detestable laws prohibited groups of citizens from assembling and pooling their resources to engage more effectively in what is the most important kind of political expression at the most vital time, right before an election.

 

Schiff’s amendment would overturn Citizens United, and thus the First Amendment, and empower state and federal governments to enact “reasonable, viewpoint-neutral” limitations on speech that “influences” elections.

 

For one thing, even if wholly neutral restrictions of political speech were possible, they would still be restrictions on expression. It doesn’t matter one whit if you find those restrictions “reasonable” or “neutral.”

 

The right of free speech isn’t contingent on fairness or outcomes or your good faith limitations. It is a free-standing, inherent right protected by the Constitution, not prescribed to us by the state in portions.

 

It’s amazing that this has to be said.

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

STANDING UP TO THE LEFTIST MOB

 

Several years ago, I saw a cartoon that went something like this: a liberal college administrator tells a conservative speaker that his event is being canceled because there have been threats of violence. The conservative asks, who are the threats coming from? and the liberal administrator answers, “Us.”

 

This is, in fact, one of the Left’s favorite ploys to shut down conservative speech. It happened at Florida’s New College last week. As we wrote here, New College of Florida is a tiny, failing far-left public school that Governor DeSantis has set out to save by appointing Christopher Rufo and other conservatives to the school’s board of trustees, with a view toward making New College the “Hillsdale of the South.” You can imagine how the college’s far-left administrators and faculty feel about that.

So Chris Rufo and other conservative trustees scheduled an open meeting at New College:

 

 

A meeting open to all is anathema to the Left, so the inevitable death threats followed. The Federalist has the story, via InstaPundit. The climactic moment came when New College’s Provost, Suzanne Sherman, demanded that the event be shut down and encouraged students not to attend. The excuse was a “credible” death threat against conservative trustee Eddie Speir, who of course wanted to go forward. Rufo has the tape:

 

The open meeting went forward, and needless to say, no one was murdered. If an anonymous threatening email is enough to shut down any public event, then our public life will speedily grind to a halt at the hands of liberals. Kudos to Chris Rufo and his fellow trustees, and to Ron DeSantis for appointing them. This incident is a reminder of how little courage it actually takes to confront and defeat the forces of intolerance.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/308970.php

[Orlando Buffalo]

2 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

STANDING UP TO THE LEFTIST MOB

 

Several years ago, I saw a cartoon that went something like this: a liberal college administrator tells a conservative speaker that his event is being canceled because there have been threats of violence. The conservative asks, who are the threats coming from? and the liberal administrator answers, “Us.”

 

This is, in fact, one of the Left’s favorite ploys to shut down conservative speech. It happened at Florida’s New College last week. As we wrote here, New College of Florida is a tiny, failing far-left public school that Governor DeSantis has set out to save by appointing Christopher Rufo and other conservatives to the school’s board of trustees, with a view toward making New College the “Hillsdale of the South.” You can imagine how the college’s far-left administrators and faculty feel about that.

So Chris Rufo and other conservative trustees scheduled an open meeting at New College:

 

 

A meeting open to all is anathema to the Left, so the inevitable death threats followed. The Federalist has the story, via InstaPundit. The climactic moment came when New College’s Provost, Suzanne Sherman, demanded that the event be shut down and encouraged students not to attend. The excuse was a “credible” death threat against conservative trustee Eddie Speir, who of course wanted to go forward. Rufo has the tape:

 

The open meeting went forward, and needless to say, no one was murdered. If an anonymous threatening email is enough to shut down any public event, then our public life will speedily grind to a halt at the hands of liberals. Kudos to Chris Rufo and his fellow trustees, and to Ron DeSantis for appointing them. This incident is a reminder of how little courage it actually takes to confront and defeat the forces of intolerance.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/308970.php

Due to this whole situation I have done some research on New College since I don't know anyone who goes there or graduated from there and I found some odd things. One is that they have less applications than any other school in Florida, literally about 1000 a year. It has the highest acceptance rate of the state schools also. It does not do grades as is generally accepted but just pass fail, and not a very stringent curriculum according to what I read. Basically it is a drain on state resources without giving back an advantage to the state. 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

The shocking criminalization of freedom of speech in America.

 

Doesn't matter what color you are. . . . . . . . . . no speaking out against the narrative.

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 College Debate Team Comes Out Against Debate. 

 

“In response to a controversial campus speaker, James Madison University’s debate team announced that ‘a general climate of free speech should not extend to requiring us to platform or amplify ideas that are exclusionary, discriminatory, or hostile.'”

 

https://reason.com/2023/04/20/college-debate-team-comes-out-against-debate/

 

 

 

Sorry, you’re morons who shouldn’t be in college. Report to Walmart for employment.

 

Though that’s probably unfair to Walmart.

[Doc]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 College Debate Team Comes Out Against Debate. 

 

“In response to a controversial campus speaker, James Madison University’s debate team announced that ‘a general climate of free speech should not extend to requiring us to platform or amplify ideas that are exclusionary, discriminatory, or hostile.'”

 

https://reason.com/2023/04/20/college-debate-team-comes-out-against-debate/

 

 

 

Sorry, you’re morons who shouldn’t be in college. Report to Walmart for employment.

 

Though that’s probably unfair to Walmart.

 

Cancel the debate team.

[B-Man]

 

 

No free speech for you 

 

 

 

 

Dylan Mulvaney Wants People Like Me Arrested.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/04/28/dylan-mulvaney-wants-people-like-me-arrested-n1691116

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

ALL HAIL THE LIBERAL NARRATIVE !