accelafine wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 4:37 am
'The Left' gave us free speech. Stop calling wokism 'the left'. Makes you just a bad and moronic as they are.
Which "Left"? It certainly wasn't the modern Left.
It was what is called "classical liberalism," which is today treated as "conservative." It used to be centrist, really. And the right to free speech, like all rights-language, goes back to John Locke, the oddball Protestant. It was never an invention of secularism, which, to this day, has no grounded account of its own as to why any "rights" can be defended at all.
The modern Left is Neo-Marxist, and is totally repressive of free speech. Even the term "hate speech" is just a recent coinage, intended to justify censorship of any objections. But what it is right to criticize, and what is not right to criticize, cannot legitimately be decided merely by Leftist fiat. And nothing turns mere questions or critiques into "hate."
The Left hates dialogue, because in a rational debate it always loses. So it cuts off all criticism in order to preserve itself from dying of its own contradictions. That's all "hate speech" has come to mean. It doesn't mean anybody's "hating" at all.
And how would one even know what was in the heart of one's critics, anyway?
What assures the proponents of the "hate speech" accusation that they are being "hated," rather than merely questioned or criticized? Is there a law against a person having a feeling? It's hard to see how one would make one.
The only real "hate speech," is
incitement to violence, which has to be explicit. If somebody says, "How can a man become a woman?" or "It's wrong to let men punch women in the face in the Olympics," how are they guilty of hating women?
And how can the person who says, "It's just fine for men to punch women in the face" be the one who is not "hateful"?
But if a man induces other men to punch women, is it not plausible that he's guilty of a kind of speech we ought to prevent? Sure. But that's not what the "hate speech" meme is being used for today. It's being used to protect violence against women, sanctioned by the IOC, for example, or the alleged "right" of male rapists to be placed in women's jails.