Comment: The left loves restrictions on free speech.
In much of Europe, if you disagree with any part of the standard historical claims about the Holocaust, you can be jailed.
In much of Europe and in Canada, if you say unkind things about any racial, ethnic, or religious group other than white Christians, you can be jailed. In American universities, all under the firm control of the left, you can be suspended for the same offenses. They would like to put you in jail.
* A WASP’s deepest beliefs are what Jews call hang-ups. Thank goodness Posner can see past our Romantic Attachments.
* All these social media platforms and online services are private businesses that already frequently shut down debate and stomp out uncomfortable content as “hate speech” or “harassment” and purge dissident thinkers and real talkers who speak out too much against the establishment progressive narrative. The media has already slandered #gamergate activists as “terrorists” and Twitter for example has engaged WAM Women Action and the Media where women can protest disagreeable users to be banned for “terrorist harassment.” If somebody disagrees with you, just ban him. The countercultural liberals have become the establishment liberals, but they don’t seem very liberal after all now that they’re in power. Perhaps it never was about freedom and they only wanted privileges of freedom as long as they were in opposition. Now that they enjoy the privileges of power what good is freedom when they can just dictate everything from the social order and the content of public dialogue.
So are the limitations to speech that the Professor Posner proposes really anything new?
* One way to express your displeasure with the current culture is by submitting reviews at Amazon. Example: last night I was reading Scourge of Vipers by Bruce DeSilva. Main character was a reporter (the author) investigating gambling shenanigans in Rhode Island.
The character was good and the plot was promising but there was so much gratuitous political commentary (“the lunatic Ted Cruz”) that I not only stopped reading, but I also posted this review on Amazon which was accepted:
“Interesting characters and a decent plot spoiled by gratuitous political commentary, e.g., “Rush Limbaugh is an idiot”. I won’t be buying any more of his books.”
Amazon and others take this feedback seriously, so speak up. Silence is assent.
