FINALLY!!!!!!!!

[RandySF]

Adam Serwer: “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back.”


https://politicalwire.com/2025/12/26/cancel-cultures-boomerang-effect/

[erronis]

1. Doesn't this apply to some from the other camp also? Free speech for me, but not for thee.

[SouthBayDem]

10. We live in such a selfish society with zero sum thinking,

a widespread belief "your gain is my loss".

[NotHardly]

2. True that.

[Cirsium]

3. Worse

Their concept of free speech forbids others from disagreeing with them (which might cause them shame, guilt, confusion or embarrassment.)

[LiberalArkie]

5. cause them shame, guilt, confusion or embarrassment

Cause them to "lose face"

[Cirsium]

8. We embarrass them

So they kill us.

[OldBaldy1701E]

15. No, we embarrass them...

So, we let them kill us.

We don't have to stand there and take it, you know.

You don't have to be oppressed.

[ShazamIam]

4. That is why conservatives own all the radio stations and the control of all television company boards of directors. Only

the pro=fascists message can be allowed.

[Ligyron]

12. Midas Touch Network

Bastion of free speech and anti-authoritarianism.

[ShazamIam]

13. Yes, Meidas Touch, Occupy Democratics, Democracy Docket, Adam Mockler, and several other youtube channels provide

fact based political reporting. I stopped listening to and watching legacy news way back in the 80s. At that time NPR and PBS were good sources, of course they have now been turned and no longer worth the time. I appreciate how youtube and for many Substack has provided a platform for alternate voices.

[Wounded Bear]

6. The hardest part of freedom is not denying it to others...nt

[RetiredParatrooper]

7. Indeed

Tue Quoque to the max.

[OhioBack2Blue]

9. Yes, makes perfect sense in MAGISTAN....

In an authoritarian governmental arrangement:
1) They are the authority
2) We are the submissives (no talking back allow children).

Only 1 problem, as is always the case. We are in America, not some delusional, dystopian Magistan.

As such, every citizen in America is protected by the U.S. Constitution, which states the govt cannot suppress any citizen's right to speech.

Suck on it hard MAGA!

[Martin68]

11. Like "Freedom of Religion" Christians, their freedom of speech is a right they have but people with differing opinions

do not.

[BaronChocula]

14. Just as when they talk about freedom and liberty

they only mean the ability of white people to control who has access to freedom and liberty and the ability of white people to do what they want.