It's hilarious how the trolls here are going on about the supposed threat of communism or Maoism or whatever.
It might be nice to have a bit less Milton Friedman in this borked up mess we call the US right now, where every single industry is ruled by an oppressive monopoly, and some people are so mad about the lousy economy and the sorry state of their lousy lives that they're looking to scapegoat minorities, immigrants, and anyone on the left.
I am of the opinion that you are more worried about the power you possess being taken away than you are of "free speech." I think that you are also worried that the power of persuasion has been usurped by people and you feel threatened by the shifting landscape.
You are also throwing out claims of "suppressing free speech" when the rug is being pulled out under you and your bully pulpit. For too long, liberals and cultural Marxists had the sanctuary status of hiding in academia and using this is as your "conversion center" to try to build the army of like-minded leftists. In other words, your authoritarianism is under threat when you are feeling the heat of being "called on the carpet." You are worried now that the democrat process is working by electing those who have had enough of your incessant baloney calling you out and putting an end to it.
But where were you when this happened?
On May 31, 2020, as protests had erupted across the U.S. in the wake of the murder of Floyd by Minneapolis police officers days earlier, former Kings player Marcus Cousins asked Napear his take on Black Lives Matter, the movement that challenges police brutality against Black people.
Napear's reply that "all lives matter" is a slogan that may appear racially neutral, but is widely perceived as a conservative repudiation of the Black Lives Matter focus on the disproportionate number of Black people who are killed by law enforcement in the U.S.
I will bet that you screamed in joy when people were being cancelled all around the world and made to hide their true thoughts. You had an extra skip in your step knowing that you were suppressing the free speech of others and that others had no choice but to noddingly agree with your views or be forever castigated as a "threat to democracy." Was this not authoritarianism at work? Was this not censorship? And was this not self-censorship of many faculty and students? All you had to do was deviate ONE angstrom from the leftist narrative and you too would have been "cancelled" by the Neo-Maoists.
Now that people are fighting back against the insanity of cultural Marxism (yes, you all took it way too far and were way too comfortable thinking that the rules did not apply to you but only applied to those you despise).
You see, this is all so simple: Richard Overy, in his book “The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia" (2004, Konecky & Konecky, Old Saybrook, CT) noted: "In each case (Hitler and Stalin) democracy was defined as the absence of political division and true representation of popular interests."
In this case, YOUR popular interests is what makes up democracy and that you determined that those who were not on your side as misfits, rubes, unenlightened conservatives while you claimed the elitist and the moral mountain top. You forced people to virtue signal your views. And any deviation from your thinking of popular interests was deemed a threat to democracy.
Your version of "academic freedom" is to "say whatever you want without facing any consequences" but by golly, those who use their academic freedom to offer a smidgen of nuance are to be denounced and to face dire consequences.
You Neo-Maoists had it to too good for too long and you did not think that the tables would turn on you. Before you condemn the hypocrisy of others, I would self-reflect on your own hypocrisy. And how one of your own leftists decided to suppress the speech of another person with a bullet. You all have been calling out conservatives and saying they are fascists, neo-Nazi's, and portraying those of us as "American Untermensch". So, I ask you this: who is the real fascist and threat to free speech? I would say it is you.
It's hilarious how the trolls here are going on about the supposed threat of communism or Maoism or whatever.
It might be nice to have a bit less Milton Friedman in this borked up mess we call the US right now, where every single industry is ruled by an oppressive monopoly, and some people are so mad about the lousy economy and the sorry state of their lousy lives that they're looking to scapegoat minorities, immigrants, and anyone on the left.
Agree. It's not cancel culture. Can't Claim being American Running Around Playing Communist Manifesto
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/cant-claim-being-american-running
I am of the opinion that you are more worried about the power you possess being taken away than you are of "free speech." I think that you are also worried that the power of persuasion has been usurped by people and you feel threatened by the shifting landscape.
You are also throwing out claims of "suppressing free speech" when the rug is being pulled out under you and your bully pulpit. For too long, liberals and cultural Marxists had the sanctuary status of hiding in academia and using this is as your "conversion center" to try to build the army of like-minded leftists. In other words, your authoritarianism is under threat when you are feeling the heat of being "called on the carpet." You are worried now that the democrat process is working by electing those who have had enough of your incessant baloney calling you out and putting an end to it.
But where were you when this happened?
On May 31, 2020, as protests had erupted across the U.S. in the wake of the murder of Floyd by Minneapolis police officers days earlier, former Kings player Marcus Cousins asked Napear his take on Black Lives Matter, the movement that challenges police brutality against Black people.
Napear's reply that "all lives matter" is a slogan that may appear racially neutral, but is widely perceived as a conservative repudiation of the Black Lives Matter focus on the disproportionate number of Black people who are killed by law enforcement in the U.S.
https://www.courthousenews.com/radio-host-fired-for-tweeting-all-lives-matter-can-pursue-retaliation-claim/
I will bet that you screamed in joy when people were being cancelled all around the world and made to hide their true thoughts. You had an extra skip in your step knowing that you were suppressing the free speech of others and that others had no choice but to noddingly agree with your views or be forever castigated as a "threat to democracy." Was this not authoritarianism at work? Was this not censorship? And was this not self-censorship of many faculty and students? All you had to do was deviate ONE angstrom from the leftist narrative and you too would have been "cancelled" by the Neo-Maoists.
Now that people are fighting back against the insanity of cultural Marxism (yes, you all took it way too far and were way too comfortable thinking that the rules did not apply to you but only applied to those you despise).
You see, this is all so simple: Richard Overy, in his book “The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia" (2004, Konecky & Konecky, Old Saybrook, CT) noted: "In each case (Hitler and Stalin) democracy was defined as the absence of political division and true representation of popular interests."
In this case, YOUR popular interests is what makes up democracy and that you determined that those who were not on your side as misfits, rubes, unenlightened conservatives while you claimed the elitist and the moral mountain top. You forced people to virtue signal your views. And any deviation from your thinking of popular interests was deemed a threat to democracy.
Your version of "academic freedom" is to "say whatever you want without facing any consequences" but by golly, those who use their academic freedom to offer a smidgen of nuance are to be denounced and to face dire consequences.
You Neo-Maoists had it to too good for too long and you did not think that the tables would turn on you. Before you condemn the hypocrisy of others, I would self-reflect on your own hypocrisy. And how one of your own leftists decided to suppress the speech of another person with a bullet. You all have been calling out conservatives and saying they are fascists, neo-Nazi's, and portraying those of us as "American Untermensch". So, I ask you this: who is the real fascist and threat to free speech? I would say it is you.