It turns out that the disruption by several dozen Stanford University law school students of a speech to be given by federal judge Kyle Duncan was not a spontaneous exercise of freedom to protest. It was a well-planned and carefully orchestrated effort to prevent other Stanford students from hearing the judge's conservative views. The disruption was
Weimar Germany had extensive 'hate speech' laws which were actively prosecuted. When the succeeding regime, led by the only German Chancellor worse than Angela Merkel, took power, they kept those laws on the books and used them to silence critics.
The far left has a Manichean mindset, casting themselves as the ultimate good, and any deviance as evil beyond redemption. It can be bizarre to be accused of 'hate' for defending free speech by screaming individuals whose features are contorted into in a rictus of primal rage and loathing, the very essence of hatred. It was bad enough to have such people on the fringes, but their world-view and methods have become mainstream, though not yet fully revealed, in the form of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.
The question is what can be done to counter them, especially as people have not learned the lessons of history that such people exist and are constantly attempting to take total power.
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Weimar Germany had extensive 'hate speech' laws which were actively prosecuted. When the succeeding regime, led by the only German Chancellor worse than Angela Merkel, took power, they kept those laws on the books and used them to silence critics.
The far left has a Manichean mindset, casting themselves as the ultimate good, and any deviance as evil beyond redemption. It can be bizarre to be accused of 'hate' for defending free speech by screaming individuals whose features are contorted into in a rictus of primal rage and loathing, the very essence of hatred. It was bad enough to have such people on the fringes, but their world-view and methods have become mainstream, though not yet fully revealed, in the form of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.
The question is what can be done to counter them, especially as people have not learned the lessons of history that such people exist and are constantly attempting to take total power.