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It is weird and disturbing that free speech has become seen as a far right value as if the only reason anyone would support free speech would be to use slurs.
by rnd0 3y ago
It is weird and disturbing that free speech has become seen as a far right value as if the only reason anyone would support free speech would be to use slurs.
Freedom of speech is the freedom to dissent; you can't have dissent in a society that doesn't allow freedom of speech. Yet the left has become strangely anti-free speech and supportive of censorship.
Both the left and the right are depressingly authoritarian, at least from where I'm standing -but you'd expect fascists (and their supporters) to be.
- mc32 3y agoIt's become labeled as far right because anything that doesn't fit a narrative is lumped in with far-right activity. You want border security = far right. Want eVerify enforced = far-right. Would rather devote taxes to homeless and US citizen poor people rather than immigrants entering illegally = far right. So it's not only neo-nazis and the kkk and the like who are classified as "far-right" it's just about any one who on social issues does not align with a progressive agenda is labeled far right. Basically Biden of the early 2000s would be classified as far-right today. Clinton's presidency would be labeled far right, if he ran today as he ran in the late 90s. That said, both the actual far lefts and the actual far rights do love authoritarianism and censorship --no question.