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Category Archives: Censorship
Steve Sailer: Will the War on Microaggressions Have Disparate Impact on Jews?
Steve Sailer writes: Kors and Silverglate are representative of a once powerful tradition of Jewish civil libertarianism that felt that it was good for the Jews that universal rules of freedom of expression applied to everybody. Jazz critic Nat Hentoff, … Continue reading
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Jews Push For Retention Of Australian Laws Against Hate Speech
I find it appalling that Jewish groups around the Western world push for hate speech laws but never seek to apply these laws to their own tradition, which has some anti-Gentile animus. If you are a Jew and you want … Continue reading
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Ashley Judd to press charges over vulgar tweets during Kentucky game
She sounds like the ADL and the SPLC and the SWC. What exact charges will she be pressing and how? REPORT: Actress Ashley Judd said she’s pressing charges against the cyberbullies who explicitly attacked her on social media over a … Continue reading
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Wiesenthal Center Urges Vilnius, Lithuania Mayor to Cancel or Restrict Upcoming Neo-Nazi March
Link: March 4, 2015 Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center today urged Artūras Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, to cancel the upcoming neo-Nazi march scheduled to take place this coming Wednesday, March 11, Lithuanian Independence Day, in the center … Continue reading
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Another Jewish Group Calls For More Censorship Of Speech They Don’t Like
ESSAY: It is legal to yell “fire,” but for obvious reasons it is illegal to shout fire in a crowded movie theater when there is no fire. So, should students at an anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) vote be … Continue reading
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Is free speech good or bad for the Jews?
Free speech is good when it helps Jews and bad when it hurts Jews. Roger Cukierman is not an anomaly among Jews. Jews have not survived and prospered for thousands of years by boosting free speech. Cukierman is probing for … Continue reading
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Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Shocked There Isn’t Automatic Internet Censorship
Does Judaism side more with censorship or free speech? It’s not clear, but there’s certainly a strong censorious side with the rabbinate. Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff rejoices in gifts from his students. In this March 1, 2015 talk, he says: “One … Continue reading
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Japanese Losing Free Speech Right To Insult Korean Immigrants
REPORT: OSAKA–The Osaka High Court on July 8 upheld a lower court ruling that banned public rallies blaring racist insults and awarded compensation to a Korean school targeted by the taunts. The court rejected the appeal filed by Zainichi Tokken … Continue reading
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Jews & Free Speech
Comments to Fred Reed: * When Jews were on the rise and challenging wasp elite power, they needed all the free speech protections they could find. It was a time ethnic balance of power when wasps, Jews, Catholics, Irish, etc … Continue reading
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Jews & Censorship
Chaim Amalek writes: “Real Yidden do not favor anything that might interfere with how we teach Torah. How can we hate the first born sons of Egypt enough to be glad they all died in Exodus if our rebbes are … Continue reading
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