Essay: Free Speech, Hate Speech, & Censorship: Winning the 2020 Elections

Table of Contents

• The Status of Freedom in 2019
• Agents of Tyranny: Marxism, Socialism, and Islam
• Totalitarian Methods Include Propaganda, Lies, and Mass Delusion
• We Must Save Freedom and Save Civilization
• Endnotes: Reference URLs

The Status of Freedom in 2019

Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen!

What a fine group of men and women are gathered here tonight! You are all stellar examples of masculinity and femininity and are wonderful representatives of the human race.

I’ve just broken some politically correct taboos by using those words, and in some venues I would be censored or castigated. How many of you have been censored? I have, when Twitter locked my account for tweeting:

You can bet 100% that if the Christians in Nigeria were slaughtering the Islamic Fulanis, the American Leftist Celebs would be all over it. “Evil Christians!” But no, it’s the Islamists killing the Christians, so Celebs YAWN. They must hate Christians a LOT to be so COLD.

Note that when I say “leftist” I do not mean “liberal.” Liberals are generally good-hearted people who love freedom. Leftists do not love freedom for all people.

I violated Twitter’s “hateful conduct” policy, so I removed the post, and my account was unlocked. In addition, I, and huge numbers of conservatives, including President Trump, are being “shadow banned” by Twitter, which means that Twitter prevents your tweets from being seen by your followers.

How many of you self-censor, with relatives, friends, or at your workplace? I know that I have. Self-censorship is endemic around the world. In Germany, only eighteen percent of survey respondents agreed that it was “possible to express oneself freely in public.”¹

So, let’s look at the status of freedom in 2019.

At colleges, institutions, and town governments across the country, large numbers of commonsense words are being heavily discouraged or banned, including:

Ladies and Gentlemen; he/him/his and she/her/hers; American/America; illegal immigrant; Male/Female; Mr./Mrs./Ms.; husband/wife; mailman, policeman, and man-made.²

Non-binary, preferred pronouns are becoming mandatory in schools and teachers are being told to stop addressing students as “boys and girls.”³ In the city code of Berkeley, California, manholes are becoming “maintenance holes.” Man-made will become “human-made.” She, her, he, and him will be replaced by “they” and “them.”⁴ The list of offensive words is growing longer every day.

Politically correct speech is “Newspeak” by another name. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, Syme, a specialist in Newspeak, meets the protagonist Winston and explains the rise of Newspeak. Here are three excerpts of his remarks:

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. . . .

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. . . .

Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?⁵

Thirty years from now, in 2050, Orwell’s prediction via Syme’s words has a very strong chance of coming true, because language, thought, speech, and religious beliefs and practices are giving ground to totalitarian forces around the world and are being heavily eroded in America, the last, best hope for freedom.

More and more social opinions are verboten and history is being rewritten. Statues of significant, historical men are being torn down and white, Christian men, both old and young, are the new villains in the Left’s efforts to divide and conquer the human race.⁶

Eight-year-old, cute-as-a-button Miss Ava Martinez received death threats on the family phone line because of her “Mini AOC” video parodies of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her parents have deleted her social media accounts to protect her from the hateful left.⁷

Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson recently declared:

Those people who are online making fun of members of Congress are a disgrace… We’re gonna shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down, and they should be prosecuted.⁸

Reza Aslan, the Islamist supremacist, former CNN contributor, and cannibal who ate human brain tissue in India, tweeted on August 4, 2019:

After today there is no longer any room for nuance. The President is a white nationalist terror leader. His supporters - ALL OF THEM - are by definition white nationalist terror supporters. The MAGA hat is a KKK hood. And this evil, racist scourge must be eradicated from society.^{9 10 11}

Twitter has not removed his tweet for violating their hate speech policies.

Restrictions on free speech, religious beliefs, and opinions have morphed into full-blown restrictions on civil rights, based on identity politics. Today, leftists and radical Democrats continue to be fully committed to the denial of civil rights to groups of individuals whom they despise. Instead of building “Colored-Only” lunch counters, Leftists today are removing the lunch counters altogether.

 Conservatives are being censored and kicked off Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Amazon, WordPress, and other web hosting platforms. They’re being rejected by hotels, banks, credit card companies, payment processors, restaurants, services like Eventbrite, and even Uber and Lyft. ^{12 13}

The Left’s attacks on free speech and its attendant civil rights are global, rapid, comprehensive, and powerful.

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Endnotes

¹ https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14362/germany-self-censorship

² https://www.thecollegefix.com/heres-the-truth-about-colorado-state-universitys-inclusive-language-guide/

³ https://www.breitbart.com/education/2019/08/05/american-university-moves-to-mandate-use-of-preferred-pronouns/

⁴ http://www.gopusa.com/man-forbidden-berkeley-adopts-gender-neutral-language-in-city-code/

⁵ http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html

⁶ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/12/shakespeare-portrait-at-university-of-pennsylvania/

⁷ https://patriotpost.us/articles/64119-mini-aoc-silenced-by-death-threats

⁸ https://gellerreport.com/2019/07/dem-vows-criminalize-those-who-mock-congress.html/

⁹ https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1158160628592209920

¹⁰ https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/06/what-took-them-so-long-cnn-fires-reza-aslan-after-he-called-trump-piece-of-st

¹¹ https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/03/reza-aslan-eats-human-brains-but-its-unlikely-to-help

¹² https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3LM9yrHVws

¹³ https://gellerreport.com/2019/08/breitbart-news-eventbrite-blacklists-pamela-geller.html/