1. "...Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village which appears for only one day every hundred years."
America, too, was the peak of the human experience in self-governing. And it contained the seed of its own destruction, a destruction we are witnessing because we allowed totalitarians, the current Democrats, to have all the freedom needed to destroy America.
And like Brigadoon, our heritage, our values, our nation, will fade into the mists, hopefully to re-appear many, many years into the future.
2. The American ethos, the characteristic spirit of a culture, centered on freedom, described in our first amendment. Then the Leftists took control of the schools and the media.....with this result:
"...a rising illiberalism that threatens to change the character of the country for the worse.
“Belief in foundations of liberalism such as free speech declines with each generation.”
3. This is a demonstrable trend. Pew found that 40 percent of Millennials “say the government should be able to prevent people publicly making statements that are offensive to minority groups.” Compare that with 27 percent for Generation Xers and 24 percent for Baby Boomers. Making the data even more alarming is that it was gathered in 2015; one can only presume that the percentage today, especially among Generation Z, is even higher.
4. None of this is to argue that people should be comfortable disparaging minority groups or anybody else; they obviously should not. But that’s a separate question from whether the government should police speech, which would necessarily entail its determining what counts as offensive and what counts as a marginalized group in need of protection — a classification that, as this NR editorial explains, can be remarkably broad.
5. Take a look around the world to appreciate how unique America’s view of freedom of expression is, even now. The same Pew study found that 62 percent in Italy and 70 percent in Germany supported such government controls on speech. (That figure was 28 percent for the U.S. as a whole.)
And take a look around the world to see what happens, on the oft-invoked slippery slope, when government has the power to restrict speech."
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Have you noticed that those who vote for the party of censorship call the other side Nazis???
America, too, was the peak of the human experience in self-governing. And it contained the seed of its own destruction, a destruction we are witnessing because we allowed totalitarians, the current Democrats, to have all the freedom needed to destroy America.
And like Brigadoon, our heritage, our values, our nation, will fade into the mists, hopefully to re-appear many, many years into the future.
2. The American ethos, the characteristic spirit of a culture, centered on freedom, described in our first amendment. Then the Leftists took control of the schools and the media.....with this result:
"...a rising illiberalism that threatens to change the character of the country for the worse.
“Belief in foundations of liberalism such as free speech declines with each generation.”
3. This is a demonstrable trend. Pew found that 40 percent of Millennials “say the government should be able to prevent people publicly making statements that are offensive to minority groups.” Compare that with 27 percent for Generation Xers and 24 percent for Baby Boomers. Making the data even more alarming is that it was gathered in 2015; one can only presume that the percentage today, especially among Generation Z, is even higher.
4. None of this is to argue that people should be comfortable disparaging minority groups or anybody else; they obviously should not. But that’s a separate question from whether the government should police speech, which would necessarily entail its determining what counts as offensive and what counts as a marginalized group in need of protection — a classification that, as this NR editorial explains, can be remarkably broad.
5. Take a look around the world to appreciate how unique America’s view of freedom of expression is, even now. The same Pew study found that 62 percent in Italy and 70 percent in Germany supported such government controls on speech. (That figure was 28 percent for the U.S. as a whole.)
And take a look around the world to see what happens, on the oft-invoked slippery slope, when government has the power to restrict speech."
What Happens When Free Speech Dies | National Review
We must not let it wither here.
www.nationalreview.com
Have you noticed that those who vote for the party of censorship call the other side Nazis???
