This dude drinks too much Kool-Aid to take seriously.
Free speech absolutely includes lies. When you deal with concepts that have gray area or are inherently subjective in nature, there's no way to objectively distinguish lie from truth. Speech is permitted. A man may live his whole life in a wig and claim to be a woman. It's a lie but he honestly believes it. An anorexic will claim to be fat. It's a lie, but she honestly believes it. Free speech has built-in protections against falsehood. Your audience will challenge a lie if you tell it. Try calling the sky purple and you'll be corrected. Learn to appreciate truly free speech.
That whole diatribe about the US being founded on genocide and rampant exploitation was something I might expect out of a purple-haired dreadlock-wearing African Race Studies major or the 1619 project. It is a gross distortion of the truth. The average British settler didn't genocide anyone, nor did he own slaves. He hacked his living out of the wilderness with his two hands and did his best to provide for his family. 90%+ of the native American population was wiped out by disease spreading incidentally along trade networks. Only a handful of incidents of intentional efforts to spread disease exist and the quality of evidence for the stories and the efficacy of the effort are poor. Yes, slavery existed. It was commonplace worldwide for anyone of means, including black freedmen and Native Americans who frequently purchased slaves or took them in battle. Let's not revise history and act like this was unique to white settlers or that it was particularly common for the average John and Jane settler. It wasn't.
Denying the Holocaust shouldn't be illegal. It is in fact a really good example of the Big Lie that the author claims isn't supposed to be able to happen. The numbers are grossly exaggerated. Anyone who has done any real scholarship on the matter can site many examples where former captives grossly exaggerated or flat-out lied about their experience just to get Allied soldiers to kill Nazis during the Post-war Occupation as a means of taking revenge. It is no secret that there were camps. They were terrible places. Over a million prisoners did die, but it should not be illegal to call out the bullshitters and the shameless opportunists who either weaponized their suffering or flat out fabricated stories for fame or financial reward. If we're to learn from history, we ought to tell it honestly, and that includes the possibility that lying sacks of shit lied about their experiences so they could get pity and charity from their victim status.
Given that this author can't seem to recognize propaganda, he doesn't get to lecture me on the topic with any sort of credibility.
The author can indeed recognize propaganda because he's deliberately spreading it. My hunch is that he's a CCP agent, just based on how he talks about China in the first several paragraphs. I stopped reading after awhile because I don't need anymore propaganda personally.
This dude drinks too much Kool-Aid to take seriously.
Free speech absolutely includes lies. When you deal with concepts that have gray area or are inherently subjective in nature, there's no way to objectively distinguish lie from truth. Speech is permitted. A man may live his whole life in a wig and claim to be a woman. It's a lie but he honestly believes it. An anorexic will claim to be fat. It's a lie, but she honestly believes it. Free speech has built-in protections against falsehood. Your audience will challenge a lie if you tell it. Try calling the sky purple and you'll be corrected. Learn to appreciate truly free speech.
That whole diatribe about the US being founded on genocide and rampant exploitation was something I might expect out of a purple-haired dreadlock-wearing African Race Studies major or the 1619 project. It is a gross distortion of the truth. The average British settler didn't genocide anyone, nor did he own slaves. He hacked his living out of the wilderness with his two hands and did his best to provide for his family. 90%+ of the native American population was wiped out by disease spreading incidentally along trade networks. Only a handful of incidents of intentional efforts to spread disease exist and the quality of evidence for the stories and the efficacy of the effort are poor. Yes, slavery existed. It was commonplace worldwide for anyone of means, including black freedmen and Native Americans who frequently purchased slaves or took them in battle. Let's not revise history and act like this was unique to white settlers or that it was particularly common for the average John and Jane settler. It wasn't.
Denying the Holocaust shouldn't be illegal. It is in fact a really good example of the Big Lie that the author claims isn't supposed to be able to happen. The numbers are grossly exaggerated. Anyone who has done any real scholarship on the matter can site many examples where former captives grossly exaggerated or flat-out lied about their experience just to get Allied soldiers to kill Nazis during the Post-war Occupation as a means of taking revenge. It is no secret that there were camps. They were terrible places. Over a million prisoners did die, but it should not be illegal to call out the bullshitters and the shameless opportunists who either weaponized their suffering or flat out fabricated stories for fame or financial reward. If we're to learn from history, we ought to tell it honestly, and that includes the possibility that lying sacks of shit lied about their experiences so they could get pity and charity from their victim status.
Given that this author can't seem to recognize propaganda, he doesn't get to lecture me on the topic with any sort of credibility.
Are you crazy? A whopping FOUR PERCENT of families in America ever owned a slave. That's pretty much every settler across the board, isn't it? ;p
The author can indeed recognize propaganda because he's deliberately spreading it. My hunch is that he's a CCP agent, just based on how he talks about China in the first several paragraphs. I stopped reading after awhile because I don't need anymore propaganda personally.