Substack doesn’t end notifications to me anymore…censorship.😊….so I’m late to reply….
The best I can make out from your screed is that you, the enlightened savior hero, and your ideological friends, will race to the rescue of us ignorant peoples, to save us from disinformation and lies and untruths and unpopular opinions…..a sort of mode…
Substack doesn’t end notifications to me anymore…censorship.😊….so I’m late to reply….
The best I can make out from your screed is that you, the enlightened savior hero, and your ideological friends, will race to the rescue of us ignorant peoples, to save us from disinformation and lies and untruths and unpopular opinions…..a sort of modern, updated, “white man’s burden”. We only get freedom when our positions align with yours. We don’t quite deserve it yet. Out of the goodness of your heart, you are going to spend some of that precious “me” time to censor out inconvenient truths, unpopular options, outright lies, just because you care. For many years, I have harbored the opinion that the lowest form of life is a white liberal, and your commentary hardened that belief of mine into ancient concrete.
The insanity of what you seem to be proposing, though you don’t quite spit it out, is mind boggling. The censors have NEVER been on the right side of history. The purported motivation of censorship doesn’t matter…..whether it is Woodrow Wilson or Joe McCarthy or George Bush or Hillary…..every one of those, and legions of others used their power and influence to crush the unpopular ideas and positions of others.
Where have you been these last 50 years? Did you ever hear of the Gulf of Tonkin? Do you remember the “truth” of the VietNamese attack on the US naval ships? Do you remember the “truth” of the Kuwaiti babies being slaughtered by invading Iraqi soldiers? More recently, do you remember the “truth” about the efficacy of paper masks from Dr Fauci? First they were no good, then good, then very good, then not good enough (you need two or three to be up,to date on your virtue signaling), then finally, well they don’t really work very well? All of these mutually exclusive pronouncements were considered “truth” for a couple of news cycles, and people were yanked off of YouTube and FB and Twitter and many other platforms for opining on the insanity of government pronouncements.
Just a few days ago, we see, in close to real time, outright fabrication of a response in the Harris 60 minute interview to cover up for the fact that Harris is yet more vapid, stupid, and incoherent than Trump. This is your “truth”??? We are going to trust those guys to filter truth from lie? Really? Or the 50 “national security experts” who weighed in on the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation only to find out, long after it mattered, that the contents as reported by the NY Post and others were 100% true?
Without the 1st Amendment, we have no country. Without robust debate, more speech, not less speech, we will never be able to make rational, informed decisions. Each one of us is responsible for what we do with the information we consume. It is not now, nor never has been the responsibility of you, your friends, or the authoritarians in government to sift through all the conversations, media articles, posts on the internet to save us. We don’t want you. Go home and shout out your TV. We are big boys and girls here…
I don’t need to go to a mall to see vacuous faces and empty lives. I live in Detroit. I am surrounded by the legacy of “trust me, we care for you” every single day. Broken promises are inextricably entangled with broken dreams…..We are ground zero in America for “look what happens when you trust the experts”. I do my best to lead by example, to help those who both need and appreciate, and to gently suggest that maybe, next time, don’t swallow as much of the Kool-Aid, whether it is coming from the preacher man, the Mayor, or the medical professionals who have made career customers out of most of us…..
I don’t try to shut down the speech of those whose positions I abhor; I try to present a coherent alternative. That position didn’t use to be controversial in America. Commitment to freedom, tolerance, diversity of opinions, a healthy skepticism of Big Everything, and a fierce opposition to censorship used to be bedrock principles of the Democratic Party in America. Now the party, along with the neocon Republicans have turned into the mouthpiece for the worst elements of society, clamoring for a level of censorship and control that was unthinkable even 10 years ago…
Substack doesn’t end notifications to me anymore…censorship.😊….so I’m late to reply….
The best I can make out from your screed is that you, the enlightened savior hero, and your ideological friends, will race to the rescue of us ignorant peoples, to save us from disinformation and lies and untruths and unpopular opinions…..a sort of modern, updated, “white man’s burden”. We only get freedom when our positions align with yours. We don’t quite deserve it yet. Out of the goodness of your heart, you are going to spend some of that precious “me” time to censor out inconvenient truths, unpopular options, outright lies, just because you care. For many years, I have harbored the opinion that the lowest form of life is a white liberal, and your commentary hardened that belief of mine into ancient concrete.
The insanity of what you seem to be proposing, though you don’t quite spit it out, is mind boggling. The censors have NEVER been on the right side of history. The purported motivation of censorship doesn’t matter…..whether it is Woodrow Wilson or Joe McCarthy or George Bush or Hillary…..every one of those, and legions of others used their power and influence to crush the unpopular ideas and positions of others.
Where have you been these last 50 years? Did you ever hear of the Gulf of Tonkin? Do you remember the “truth” of the VietNamese attack on the US naval ships? Do you remember the “truth” of the Kuwaiti babies being slaughtered by invading Iraqi soldiers? More recently, do you remember the “truth” about the efficacy of paper masks from Dr Fauci? First they were no good, then good, then very good, then not good enough (you need two or three to be up,to date on your virtue signaling), then finally, well they don’t really work very well? All of these mutually exclusive pronouncements were considered “truth” for a couple of news cycles, and people were yanked off of YouTube and FB and Twitter and many other platforms for opining on the insanity of government pronouncements.
Just a few days ago, we see, in close to real time, outright fabrication of a response in the Harris 60 minute interview to cover up for the fact that Harris is yet more vapid, stupid, and incoherent than Trump. This is your “truth”??? We are going to trust those guys to filter truth from lie? Really? Or the 50 “national security experts” who weighed in on the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation only to find out, long after it mattered, that the contents as reported by the NY Post and others were 100% true?
Without the 1st Amendment, we have no country. Without robust debate, more speech, not less speech, we will never be able to make rational, informed decisions. Each one of us is responsible for what we do with the information we consume. It is not now, nor never has been the responsibility of you, your friends, or the authoritarians in government to sift through all the conversations, media articles, posts on the internet to save us. We don’t want you. Go home and shout out your TV. We are big boys and girls here…
I don’t need to go to a mall to see vacuous faces and empty lives. I live in Detroit. I am surrounded by the legacy of “trust me, we care for you” every single day. Broken promises are inextricably entangled with broken dreams…..We are ground zero in America for “look what happens when you trust the experts”. I do my best to lead by example, to help those who both need and appreciate, and to gently suggest that maybe, next time, don’t swallow as much of the Kool-Aid, whether it is coming from the preacher man, the Mayor, or the medical professionals who have made career customers out of most of us…..
I don’t try to shut down the speech of those whose positions I abhor; I try to present a coherent alternative. That position didn’t use to be controversial in America. Commitment to freedom, tolerance, diversity of opinions, a healthy skepticism of Big Everything, and a fierce opposition to censorship used to be bedrock principles of the Democratic Party in America. Now the party, along with the neocon Republicans have turned into the mouthpiece for the worst elements of society, clamoring for a level of censorship and control that was unthinkable even 10 years ago…