To remain viable, a political ideal must fundamentally distinguish between speech and violence.
Contrarily, however, the Left has declared their violence is speech and everyone else’s speech is violence. This is hypocrisy on steroids.
This from frontpagemag.com.
For example, the Left branded the BLM race riots as the “speech of the unheard,” while also arguing as the New York Times did, “Free Speech Is Killing Us,” is illiberal totalitarianism.
A simple analysis will reveal the majority of liberals:
– cast aside liberal values;
– learned to deplore meritocracy, fair play, freedom of speech, and all differences of opinion which did not serve their radical cause; and
– became leftists who play the cynical game of viewing dissent as either a ‘threat to democracy’ or the ‘highest form of patriotism’ depending on whether they’re the ones in power or dissenting.
NOTE: This IS NOT liberalism. The immediate above defines “a leftist wolf who puts on sheep’s clothing when he is being hunted.”
Free speech is not defending the speech with which you agree, rather the speech with which you disagree.
[A]nd the last time the born-again liberal hypocrites did that was at least a generation ago. The same people who told us that cancel culture was really ‘consequence culture’ are outraged when consequences come for their activists after they spent over a year calling for Death to America.
The cries about the sanctity of academic freedom ring hollow from the establishment that watched conservatives and then even actual liberals and non-conforming Leftists being purged from academia until it became a political monoculture.
To wit:
– The same liberals now defending campus Hamas riots were fine with campus bans on everything from sombreros to copies of the Constitution. Scrawl a Hamas red triangle and the civil libertarians will jump to your defense who ignored when a campus chalk message in support of Trump was treated like a hate crime;
– The old liberal organizations who never said a word when fraternities and sororities were being forced out of Harvard and their members punished, wave the bloody shirt of freedom of association when the Trump administration investigates members of pro-terrorist groups like Students for Justice in Palestine after a year of violence and calls for the murder of Jews;
– The federal government has no right to investigate Harvard and Columbia University, they tell us, but when the authorities came for Liberty University and Yeshiva University, they cheered; and
– Unlike suing religious schools to impose LGBTQ values on them, investigating antisemitism at liberal schools is a violation of the rights of the right kind of bigotry at the right kind of university.
The larger issue here, though, is not any of these double standards: It is the double standard itself.
The spectacle of authoritarians playing libertarians, the thugs who punched you in the face a year ago running to cry to the media when their visas are revoked, and the politicians who were warning about the urgent need to police ‘misinformation’ suddenly talking about the importance of tolerating genocidal views that we might disagree with is the most despicable hypocrisy.
Like Orwell’s 1984, they switch gears without a trace of shame from tyrants to liberals, alternately lecturing about the threat posed by those who disagree with them and then about the virtues of disagreement, deploring and imploring for freedoms of all kinds, limitations on government authority, and due process with no regard to anything except their own power.
A generation of this has destroyed liberalism as thoroughly as any totalitarian regime ever could.
No ideal can survive a movement that is both pro-censorship and anti-censorship, for the rule of law and against it, for the judiciary and against it, for and against the power of the Senate, the White House, and any branch of government depending on their control over it.
Liberals could have avoided the illiberalism they deplore:
– They could have stood up to the campaign to ban ‘misinformation,’
– When the government began telling internet monopolies whom to censor, they could have rallied against it, and
– [W]hen cancel culture took hold of everyone from random teenage boys to respected members of their own ranks over offenses so absurd they could have come from a Russian novel, they could have shown some backbone.
Instead, they cheered, they lied, and they excused locking people into their homes, filling the streets with troops, and censorship of even the mildest dissenting views.
It is now too damn late for them to pretend
they are still liberals who want freedom for all.
Trump did not kill the liberal order. If anything:
[H]e saved its last vestiges from the liberals who would have enthusiastically put it to death while pumping their fists in the air, canceling a few more artists, writers, and journalists and planting ‘Hate has no home here’ signs on its remains.
The liberals of late are not liberals anymore. They do not believe in free speech, a free press, or any kind of freedom except as a hollow slogan behind which to hide when their plans for building a totalitarian state temporarily fall apart.
They are not liberals. They are totalitarian hypocrites.
Liberalism is dead and they killed it.
