The mainstream media are doing nothing but hurting us.

People like to talk about incitement in incredibly obscure terms in order to insist that saying things like "God hates fags." or "Not all Muslims are terrorists; but, all terrorists are Muslims." are going to set off a chain that will result in violent behaviour. We can all agree that those are wrong, disgusting, evil things to say; but, no, I won't support legal punishment for saying those things.

Still, let's talk about some speech that did demonstrably, at least to my mind, cause violence. I still believe that these people have the right to speak the way they did without facing legal charges (aside from possibly defamation suits). In fact, it's not even about what they said so much as it's about what they knew and didn't say.

How many of you would get up and go out and march and loot and burn things for justice for a man who had been beating his girlfriend. After his girlfriend had enough and tried to throw him out, he forced himself on her and sexually assaulted her with her son in the same bed. He then fled the scene. There was a felony warrant out for his arrest. He showed up at his girlfriend's place, took her keys, put their two kids in the car. The girlfriend called 911, naming him, telling the police that he was trying to take her kids. The police arrive and try to arrest him. He has a knife and fights with the police. The police use their tasers on him twice to no effect. He continues to the vehicle and opens the door to drive away. At that point, the police shoot him, not fatality, in order to subdue him.

Those are the facts of the Jacob Blake shooting. Would you burn down a building for that man? Would you support anybody setting dumpsters on fire and pushing them toward gas stations for that person?

Well, of course not. Thats why the media tried to say that Blake was trying to break up a fight (false), the cops arrived and shot an unarmed (false) black man in the back with his kids in the car (technically true but really false).

No ideas should be forbidden to be spoken and also no speech should be compelled. There still needs to be some cultural, moral backlash against all of this. The state deciding what is right and proper would make things infinitely worse. What we need is to practice liberal science better as a people.