The Right is using government to police speech. The Left is not.
This newsletter spent 8 short paragraphs on the Right using government to limit speech and ideas and then went into a 29 paragraph long tirade about the Left talking about not liking certain books and a couple of bookstores choosing not to sell Harry Potter books (which is a…
The Right is using government to police speech. The Left is not.
This newsletter spent 8 short paragraphs on the Right using government to limit speech and ideas and then went into a 29 paragraph long tirade about the Left talking about not liking certain books and a couple of bookstores choosing not to sell Harry Potter books (which is also an exercise in free speech).
The Right is using government to actually restrict speech and ban books with the full buy-in of its political leadership. The Left has some far out outliers deciding they don't want to support some speech independent of government and the Left's political leadership has not stepped up to support them.
And what is worse is that these government pursued policies effect textbooks that the whole country will be forced to use. Many of these textbooks will offer a totally whitewashed version of history. And math textbooks too- what is up with that totally egregious use of government power!
The Right is using government to police speech. The Left is not.
This newsletter spent 8 short paragraphs on the Right using government to limit speech and ideas and then went into a 29 paragraph long tirade about the Left talking about not liking certain books and a couple of bookstores choosing not to sell Harry Potter books (which is also an exercise in free speech).
The Right is using government to actually restrict speech and ban books with the full buy-in of its political leadership. The Left has some far out outliers deciding they don't want to support some speech independent of government and the Left's political leadership has not stepped up to support them.
So they aren't doing the "same thing" at all.
And what is worse is that these government pursued policies effect textbooks that the whole country will be forced to use. Many of these textbooks will offer a totally whitewashed version of history. And math textbooks too- what is up with that totally egregious use of government power!
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