BEN BARTEE

Shocker: a huge contingent of “free speech warriors” never really meant any of it.

All along, their “free speech” talking points were code for the much less noble principle: “I want my political opponents silenced and my political tribe amplified in the media because I’m scared my ideas can’t stand up to scrutiny.” 

…And so, just like that, all of their alleged fidelity to the concept of freedom of speech is tossed out the window when the neocons catch the slightest whiff of a hot new Middle East war they might be able to finagle out of a tragedy.

Nikki Haley: ‘There should be freedom of speech, but you don’t get freedom of hate’

In response to various university groups embracing Hamas and/or criticizing Israel (these are not interchangeable positions regardless of how hard neocons want to conflate them), Nikki Haley trotted out a new censorship slogan she might as well have ripped straight from a Women’s and Gender Studies manifesto:

“There should be freedom of speech, but you don’t get freedom of hate.”

(Note how the political dichotomy has a way of coming full circle when it comes to justifying censorship.)

Of course, Haley’s nonsensical catchphrase handed to her by her PR people doesn’t mean anything, but that’s the point: it’s incoherent and malleable enough to justify any crackdown on speech possible.

Ben Shapiro: ‘If you work in the media and uncritically and reflexively parrot the genocidal Jew-hating terrorist liars Hamas you should be fired’

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1714647034156716497

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