Why conservatives hate free speech

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Why conservatives hate free speech - Daily Kos

JD Vance and senior White House aide Stephen Miller have argued that a crackdown on left-of-center groups is necessary to stop people from telling the truth about what a bigot and conspiracy theorist Kirk was.

The right’s attack on free speech isn’t something new that was prompted by Kirk’s death. For decades the conservative movement and the Republican Party have tried to suppress open expression.

To give cover to their war on speech, conservatives have declared nearly everything they oppose politically as “woke,” and then pushed for the removal of “woke” things— including speech and diversity—from public and private institutions and individuals.

Now, using the murder of a bigot as an excuse, conservatives and the Republican Party are determined to erase one of the key pillars of American society.

[gulliver]

1. The dumb and the crazy hate free speech.

Thank goodness there so few people like that in the world. Otherwise we'd be in trouble.

[ananda]

2. We ARE in trouble.

There are WAY too many of them.

[Becky_MN]

4. Massive crowd but

It’s one big Nazi rally

[valleyrogue]

6. And his "movement" will die out shortly.

These entitled young white dudes will find another demagogue to hitch their star to. Erika Kirk cannot sustain Turning Point USA. It will go broke in due time.

[B.See]

7. "It's one big Nazi rally." PRECISELY.

[Clouds Passing]

3. Because they HATE truth

[valleyrogue]

5. These extremists are not "conservatives."

I stop reading anybody who continues to use this word to describe the radical right in all its forms.

The last thing they are are "conservatives."

[B.See]

8. Words of the article's author. Perhaps

he's being exceedingly polite, or maybe in his mind he sees no differentiating between the word 'conservative' and all that they truly are.

For me, it isn't a technicality that renders the information presented unreliable, or the article unworthy of a read.