The conspiracy joins a list of other claims by the presidential candidate, including the suggestion at an anti-COVID-19 vaccine demo that life was more difficult today than it was for those attempting to flee Nazi Germany
The conspiracy joins a list of other claims by the presidential candidate, including the suggestion at an anti-COVID-19 vaccine demo that life was more difficult today than it was for those attempting to flee Nazi Germany
The right has succeeded enormously in changing the definition of “free speech” for a large segment of the population to mean “speech without public criticism or outrage.”
That guarantees that we will see lots of horrific people get into office and get the spotlight, because anyone who asks “why are we platforming these people” will be accused of “cancel culture” and “being anti-free speech” by all the conservatives and even some liberals, now.
Forget that the people I want ostracized from major public platforms are actual, literal nazis, saying nazi things and actively working to enact a system which will enable actual genocide. That doesn’t matter any more to a lot of liberal suburbanites who believe that free speech is somehow sacrosanct, and have accepted the new definition.
It guarantees the Overton window will continue shifting to the right at an alarmingly fast rate unless we enact laws to stop it, which we can’t because of how broad the first amendment is.