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>They definitely aren’t the same people. The fight against CRT is now a mainstream conservative mission. These are the same people who have spent years advoca
by slg 5y ago
>They definitely aren’t the same people.
The fight against CRT is now a mainstream conservative mission. These are the same people who have spent years advocating for free speech when it comes to tech companies but are fine censoring the schools. It is completely hypocritical.
- ch4s3 5y agoThe conservatives like Josh Hawley who are writing these bills haven’t been in office long, he was elected in 2019 and is a central anti crt figure. He has never been a free speech advocate. I guess I’m just not sure which specific people you mean. Certainly there exist conservatives who hate being censored but love playing censor, that’s nothing new. I’m not sure it’s even hypocritical, they just have values I find to be pretty awful.
- slg 5y agoTed Cruz? Marco Rubio? Rand Paul? Greg Abbott? Ron DeSantis? Basically any Republican that has hopes of running for president has supported both these views.
- ch4s3 5y ago> Ted Cruz? Marco Rubio? Rand Paul? Greg Abbott? Ron DeSantis Of the people you’ve named below only Paul has any history of arguing for the freedom to say things he doesn’t personally like. The rest just complain when speech they like is curtailed, and they may use the phrase. I can call a pizza salad, and sing its praises all day, but that doesn’t mean I like salad, or advocate for it. You’re right that Paul is being hypocritical though.
- slg 5y agoAll of them have extoled the importance of free speech when it comes to big tech and all of them have talked about the importance of keeping CRT out of schools. You are free to put them into different buckets depending on whether they lied about one issue or the other, but to me they are all just people lying about their motivations.
- ch4s3 5y agoHaving some dumb take about social media doesn’t make any of them free speech advocates. These are just some clowns who have used the phrase as a cudgel. My whole original point was that the anti-crt laws are backed by trad cons, not free speech advocates. Most of these people glommed onto the issue after it was made popular with the base by folks like Hawley and Rufo. It’s important to make distinctions when talking about where ideas come from.