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While there is a component of free speech advocates who are doing so because of partisan interests, there is another component who are sincere. (The way to tell
by ravel-bar-foo 5y ago
While there is a component of free speech advocates who are doing so because of partisan interests, there is another component who are sincere. (The way to tell is to ask whether they would accept censorship of their ideological foes.)
> where 'free speech' is treated as sort of antifa Kryptonite
I'm a bit confused by this. Whether or not free speech is repelent/harmful to antifa isn't an argument against free speech. If free speech harms a movement, then so be it. If it allows a movement to prosper, then so be it.
On the object level, I've seen a lot of allegations that antifa attack people who film them (and one of their movement sucker punched a journalist on air.) This gave me the impression that antifa is at least as interested in controlling speech as their opposition.
- Applejinx 5y ago"a journalist"?
- kbelder 5y ago"Journalist". Someone who writes a journal. It's not like the state issues licenses.
- Applejinx 5y agoSo, Richard Spencer, deeply committed white nationalist passionately advocating for fascist reformulation of the nation's policies, and the man who personally coined the term 'alt-right' and led the marching at Charlottesville, crying out 'you will not replace us' and 'blood and soil'? This guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer