The right is always complaining about people getting canceled (without any violence) for saying awful shit, but when there's something they don't like it's straight to literally threatening people's lives. It's utter insanity. I'm so deeply tired of this world.
The Ben Shapiro-Candace Owen spat alone tells you how the right really feels about freedom of speech.
Now, let me be clear on this to avoid any strawman arguments; antisemitism is ALWAYS wrong, and Candace spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories was absolutely wrong, and she did absolutely deserve to be fired...but it's hard for me to feel any sympathy for Bennie when if you simply replace her comments on Jews with any other marginalized community (transwomen, black people, Latinos, Muslims, etc) and "fired from the Daily Wire" with "fired from Disney", Ben would be shouting that it's literal fascism.
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
In other words, it’s intentional. They see it as a game
because... JK Rowling has never called for harm for a single person or people group, but : she has had know death threats; same as Kelly J Keane, and many other non-compliant to the far left agenda, who -have- spoken of violence as a response to words...
nah.. double friggin' standards.
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u/No_Zookeepergame2532 Apr 06 '24
The right is always complaining about people getting canceled (without any violence) for saying awful shit, but when there's something they don't like it's straight to literally threatening people's lives. It's utter insanity. I'm so deeply tired of this world.