Speech only needs to be protected when it is in fact unpopular. I think we've got the Left in full-throttle attack on the First Amendment. But it appears an act of desperation.
How can ideas be prevented from dissemination in the age of the Internet? But maybe something more sinister is happening, as John Derbyshire writes of the shutting down of the American Renaissance conference, "How Liberty Dies."
The Left has certainly been emboldened. Seeing those creatures wearing that Palestinian towel is disgusting. And for a guy the Southern Poverty Law Center must consider a dangerous white supremacist, Jared Taylor makes an awful lot of sense to me, esp. towards the end of the interview.It is a shameful thing that the AR conference was shut down -- an ominous thing too, in that this is the first time it's happened. We may be losing our freedoms of speech and association, as they have in Britain and Europe. So much for American exceptionalism.
I'm one of those whites who could have settled and worked in Washington, DC, or Detroit, Michigan--where homes prices are compellingly low--both places I have indeed lived, but for certain unstated reasons prefer New Hampshire north of Concord. We think it but we're not allowed to say it.
Heresy, the word Taylor uses, fits.
POSTSCRIPT: Before the disgrace at Ottawa shutting down Coulter was the warm-up in Halifax shutting down Taylor. Don't give in to these goons. Lesson of history: weakness begets more weakness.
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