#Walkaway My 2 Cents On De-platforming And The Growing Anti-Americanism At Home

in #news6 years ago (edited)

#walkaway

By now you've heard about the complete de-platforming of Alex Jones and Info Wars by the SNS monopolies. Liberals are rejoicing over the coordinated action calling Alex's words and Info Wars hate speech, while just two days before they were defending the NY Times hiring an actual hate merchant. A woman who said reprehensible things about men and white people in general, an actual racist and a sexist. A woman who went on for several years saying racist things about white people and sexist things about men. Several YEARS! But the left and even a fucking Senator in Hawaii are standing by her!

If it was one platform we would still be pissed and fighting for their right to use said platform, but this was all of them. Basically the modern day internet, Facebook, Apple, Instagram, Youtube, and Spotify. It was coordinated, silencing of free speech by monopolies 3 months before a critical election. And it wasn't the only nefarious act. Said platforms have been shadow banning conservatives, even members of the US Congress for months now! That makes this collusion to affect the outcome of a US election and you will be hearing more of this in the days to come.

I remember when I was a liberal people were genuinely concerned about helping everyone, having open dialog even with those you disagreed with, putting politics and religion aside to have a beer with your neighbor and not giving into hate. Those days are disappearing though. The left has​ given into their dark side all to oppose someone they disagree with, President Trump.

That leads me to my Walkaway moment. I was a liberal for a good 20+ years listening to Thom Hartman, Stephanie Miller, NPR and the likes. Reading all the progressive media, The Nation, Huff Po, etc. I even voted for Obama twice, of which I deeply regret.

I remember something changing in Obama's second term though. You could almost feel it, but you couldn't quite put your finger on it. I clearly remember when I started turning off to the left. It was when Hillary and the DNC cheated Bernie out of the nomination and when liberals started calling anyone who supported Tump a nazi or deplorable or any of the other slanderous terms they could come up with. Hate speech if you will. Now I didn't support Tump, but friends and family did. Good people, who were not racist in the slightest, just economic conservatives. This tarring of people close to me finally made me walk away from the Democrats for good. In reality though, my core beliefs are still the same, free speech, equal rights, even socialized medicine as long as you have a choice to go with private insurance. It's the left that actually walked away with their identity politics, open borders, normalization of pedophilia, and on and on.

The left has swung so far to the left they are becoming totalitarian, like the socialist dictators in South America and China. Censorship is all the rage on the left if you do not agree with them you're a fucking nazi that deserves to be punched in the face. And if you are a young, black conservative you are a white supremacist deserving assault & battery. The left has literally gone insane.

There are tons of videos like this showing the left and Antifa de-platforming people, harassing people and even assaults and vandalizing businesses. Anti fascist? Ya right, those are the tactics of fascists. Oh and liberals should remember when they tell you:

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I know it's difficult for the rest of the world to understand American free speech. No other country on earth has it. It is a right that can not be infringed, even if you're offended. Offense is taken, not given. Even more important is political speech. That is the highest and most protected form of free speech in our democracy. Info Wars would most likely fall under political speech. Harassing an individual, black, conservative woman, not so much.

This won't end well for the left because most Americans are good, decent, hardworking people who do not agree with this divisive bullshit. They don't agree with spoiled little shits dressed in all black, faces covered, rioting for no reason. America always rights itself, our founders made sure of that by giving us the Constitution and freedom of speech. I just hope that when the pendulum swings back to the right, the right doesn't go off the deep end​ like the left is doing. Regardless, I will defend your right to free speech.

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#walkawayタグは、どのようなときに使いますか?

アメリカ政治タグです。むずかし。。

アメリカの Steemit では政治のことが話題になるのですか?日本はほとんどないイメージですが。

はい。 我々はすべてについて話す!

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