Good! I approve of that.

Zaphod Beeblebrox IV when informed the computer is trying to make tea Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

One of the things about free speech is that it mean that people you dislike and disagree violently with get to speak. Like this:

Students at Columbia University launch anti-Israel ‘Columbia Intifada’ newspaper: ‘Outrageous’

The post article has more

The hateful group’s four-page spread includes no bylines or any information connecting the articles to their respective authors, nor is there any solicitation for outside perspectives or reactions from readers.

The only words on the front-page masthead is a quote from a poem by woke extremist scholar Sophia Armen, which reads, “You, genocider — who remembers you?”

It almost goes without saying that I disapprove of the opinions of this paper and the people who write and distribute it on campus.

That being said I completely approve of this method of expressing these at best misguided and at worst violently anti-Semitic opinions.

It’s not occupying buildings or disrupting classing or any form of physical violence. It’s expressing their opinion is an open way and a person is not required to own or read said opinion if they don’t want to.

In short it’s making an argument and frankly there is no reason why such a weak argument can’t be countered by people making a counter argument.

By all means feel free to attack the paper and those who write and distribute it but I’m with Sarah Hoyt when she says:

FREE SPEECH INCLUDES THE RIGHT TO PUBLICLY EXPOSE YOURSELVES AS A**HOLES

The 1st Amendment covers everybody. Even A**holes. Full stop.

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I must confess I don’t understand why we are not seeing the following argument coming out of every single spokesperson for the incoming administration:

Let me get this straight: The same media who told you inflation wasn’t an issue, the border was secure, that can’t define what a woman is, who told you that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack & insisted he wouldn’t pardon Hunter, that Kamala was Not Border Tsar & that she was going to win big…is spreading rumors about President-Elect Trump’s nominees, and you take them seriously? Why?

Until the new Senate is sworn in they should dismiss it all as fake stories from the fake news.

No charge.

Over and over again I have been bullied and harassed on social media by individuals who inhabit the political left.  All I have to do to trigger an onslaught of mean-spirited and abusive comments is to post something on Facebook that goes against official progressive orthodoxy. 

Whenever I encounter posts from my progressive friends that I do not agree with, or that I know are incorrect, or that I know are pure bovine excrement, I simply scroll past like an adult.  My liberal friends rarely return the favor.  There have been times when I’ve had to do battle with 4 or 5 angry leftists at the same time. Each time this happened I felt very much I was ambushed by a pack of rabid dogs.

None of my Conservative or Libertarian friends engage in the same type of bullying and harassing behavior that progressives engage in regularly.  Just about all of my right leaning friends have been tormented by hoards of angry liberals.  Just about all of my progressive friends have bullied and harassed me.  That is the primary difference between the right and the left when it comes to social media.

It took me quite a while to figure out why liberals constantly engage in this holy war against posts that they do not agree with.  Their goal is to bully and harass individuals who do not share their beliefs into silence.  We are heretics to them.  Freedom of speech is not a two-way street to leftists.  They label posts that go against progressive groupthink as misinformation, or hate speech, or both.  Then they declare all-out war on those individuals that dare think for themselves.

The only way I found to fight against this bullying and harassment is to unfriend those that attempt to bully me into silence.  I tried to engage in rational debate and a respectful sharing of views and opinions.  That was not well received at all.  They responded with insults and tantrums.  The bullying only escalated. 

I firmly believe that every individual has a right to believe whatever they wish to believe, and to give voice to those beliefs however they wish.  I firmly believe that no individual has the right to force their beliefs on any other individual.  Sadly, those on the political left do not share these beliefs.