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In reply to the discussion: A war is raging against free speech [View all]Jessy169
(602 posts)That's what all the right wing lunatic posters over on Yahoo are saying every day.
Proposing that we prevent hateful and criminal communications developed in America and targeted at religious/ethnic groups overseas does NOT equate to "a war against free speech". That point of view is what the right-wingers chant all day long. Why? Because it is the right wing hatemongers who are the sole beneficiaries of the "right" to target their hateful communications at the groups they want to anger, demean and incite.
There is a war raging around the concept of free speech, and some of the right-wing "warriors" are posing as liberal/progressive advocates of free speech. Their intent is to confuse the issues, and to pollute the legitimate discussion of just how far does the concept of "free speech" go.
Organized hate speech is a right-wing tool. Name one liberal/progressive group that receives financing from billionaires or secret donors, and has the primary goal of promoting hate speech -- insult, slander, anger -- against a specific religious or ethnic group. Now list all the organized right-wing groups that get that financing and have the clear objective of promoting hate speech against targeted ethnic/religious groups -- that list is long.
The debate about American excesses of free speech is a legitimate one, and that debate does NOT equate to "a war raging against free speech".