I've been on the left since I was a teenager. Fight nazis and white supremacists with better organizing and smarter arguments. Shutting down freedom of speech always backfires. You may notice that the same liberal/leftists who organized to shut down hate speech and right wing speech are now themselves getting shut down by anti-Palestine censorship. Chomsky made it clear - your belief in freedom of speech means nothing unless it is freedom of speech for people whose positions you despise. There are clear laws for incitement to imminent violence. Other than than freedom of speech is a hard fought freedom that the left and union movements have worked for for decades; tyrants and authoritarianism and corporate capitalist pseudo-democracy always thrive on suppressing speech and controlling narrative. Don't fall for it - speech suppression used against the enemies of the left will soon be wielded against the left itself. And bonus points? You may have missed that the US is already corporations plus government military industrial complex fascism. The assassinations of JFK RFK MLK Malcolm Fred Hampton - this was just the opening move, we've seen full fascism in the corrupt shutdown of the Bernie campaign in 2016 (exposed by Wikileaks) and 2020 (corrupt DNC maneuvering to get Biden in place of Bernie). So how exactly are you saying that only the "official" fascists of the far right, and the GOP, are of concern? CNN - MSNBC want very much for left and liberal sensibilities to defend capitalist fascism against GOP Maga fascism. Maga is a symptom of the problem, not the cause - just as many who voted Maga voted Obama in 2008, the reason the GOP right wing rhetoric gets support is because the corrupt democrats have always blocked any real populist left agenda, so the GOP can just co-opt it as it has nowhere else to go. When we line up with establishment candidates like Biden or Clinton how well is that going to turn out? So no, I am not buying the attack on substack for standing up for free speech. Look deeper into what is going on here, stop lining up with DNC talking points.
I've been on the left since I was a teenager. Fight nazis and white supremacists with better organizing and smarter arguments. Shutting down freedom of speech always backfires. You may notice that the same liberal/leftists who organized to shut down hate speech and right wing speech are now themselves getting shut down by anti-Palestine censorship. Chomsky made it clear - your belief in freedom of speech means nothing unless it is freedom of speech for people whose positions you despise. There are clear laws for incitement to imminent violence. Other than than freedom of speech is a hard fought freedom that the left and union movements have worked for for decades; tyrants and authoritarianism and corporate capitalist pseudo-democracy always thrive on suppressing speech and controlling narrative. Don't fall for it - speech suppression used against the enemies of the left will soon be wielded against the left itself. And bonus points? You may have missed that the US is already corporations plus government military industrial complex fascism. The assassinations of JFK RFK MLK Malcolm Fred Hampton - this was just the opening move, we've seen full fascism in the corrupt shutdown of the Bernie campaign in 2016 (exposed by Wikileaks) and 2020 (corrupt DNC maneuvering to get Biden in place of Bernie). So how exactly are you saying that only the "official" fascists of the far right, and the GOP, are of concern? CNN - MSNBC want very much for left and liberal sensibilities to defend capitalist fascism against GOP Maga fascism. Maga is a symptom of the problem, not the cause - just as many who voted Maga voted Obama in 2008, the reason the GOP right wing rhetoric gets support is because the corrupt democrats have always blocked any real populist left agenda, so the GOP can just co-opt it as it has nowhere else to go. When we line up with establishment candidates like Biden or Clinton how well is that going to turn out? So no, I am not buying the attack on substack for standing up for free speech. Look deeper into what is going on here, stop lining up with DNC talking points.