The widespread and idiotic lack of understanding regarding the principle of free speech is on display in the wake of the Hamas terrorist operation in Israel.
There has been a rush among the usual leftist suspects, from Black Lives Matter to no fewer than 31 student organizations at Harvard, to back the terrorists and blame Israel. It’s akin to blaming a shooting victim for getting in the way of the bullet.
The Black Lives Matter stance is predictable from an organization that is largely discredited after some people took the time to see what they were doing with all the money being raised to fight racism. Hint: It wasn’t going to fighting racism, but instead to make sure the BLM hierarchy lived like royalty in houses few of us could afford.
You might expect better from the ostensibly well-off, privileged students at Harvard. And this would indicate that you’ve been ignoring what has been going on at elite campuses, and some not-so-elite campuses, in terms of hard-left teachings and suppression of conservative thought. Freedom of speech on college campuses only applies if you are somewhere to the left of Chairman Mao on the political spectrum.
So it is with social media, which has taken it upon itself to protect the sheep from such heresy as suggesting COVID vaccinations were not all they were purported to be, or that Hunter Biden’s laptop was, indeed, Hunter Biden’s laptop, not some Russian disinformation.
But these same self-righteous censors at Facebook and its ilk have no problem providing a platform for Hamas supporters in the wake of the attack on Israel, terrorism that included beheading babies, raping and killing women, and even shooting dogs just for sport.
On a Middle East Eye page on Facebook, reports of Israel committing “genocide” on Palestinians go unchallenged. We are ordered to empathize with Palestinians suffering at the hands of Israeli “Nazis.”
Palestinians are suffering, even being killed and this is bad. Yet one poster proudly proclaims Muslims welcome death for the cause.
Which is it? Can’t have it both ways.
We have a similar problem in our neighborhood, under the guise of freedom of speech, with an individual who mistakes the First Amendment protections for carte blanche to be a cancer on society.
It is humorous that some are wanting Harvard to provide a list of names for the students belonging to these 31 organizations supporting Hamas vs. Israel, that they might know them and, perhaps, avoid offering them well-paying jobs.
This already has happened to one twit, the head of another university’s school of law bar association, who rushed to email fellow students regarding support of Hamas and to hammer Israel, calling the terrorism committed against Israelis “necessary.”
The Chicago law firm that had offered this transgender it a job, has withdrawn the offer.
Let the whining begin.
Here is what too many free-speech crazies miss. There are limits on what you can say, to whom you can say it, and when you can say it.
Moreover, while you have general freedom of speech, you do not have freedom from consequences of what you say.
The leftists love it when some right-wing type gets pilloried for an insensitive public remark, perhaps losing the current job and hopes of future employment. But when the roles are reversed, they scream like children with wet diapers.
Hypocrite and liberal are synonymous.
There is in this country, in this world, an attempt to blur the lines between right and wrong, or, even worse, to reverse the roles.
If you can view evidence of what was done in Israel by terrorists and choose to make a public spectacle of yourself advocating for the terrorists, you are a sick, demented person.
You have lost your moral compass. You are a waste of air. It is that simple and, eventually, it’s going to come down on a worldwide basis to a battle for supremacy between those on the right side of history, and those who would pander to evil.
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