Then you're making the case that "conservative expressions" can be violent, harmful, abusive, seditious, and so forth.
Which provide plenty of completely justifiable reasons those expressions should be acted against. As many of those expressions are literal crimes.
So much for your claim this was just about personal freedoms. You're straight-up defending violent domestic terrorism, here.
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If you ever believed the election was possibly fraudulent, that Dominion was somehow corrupted, that there was any level of significant fraud swinging the election for Democrats, any of that stuff, you're one of the "crazies".
There were no "legitimate concerns" about the election.
Blanket distrust for the Federal Government is, itself, a "crazy" point of view.
Whatever "concerns" you're referencing magically appeared right when the election conspiracy started. Where were these concerns before? They didn't exist, because nobody was concerned.
And that's because all of your so-called "legitimate" concern is ultimately just sealioning on behalf of the conspiracy theorists.
But let's be hypothetical, here. Let's say, just for a second, that you do, somehow, feel like what you're saying is legitimate. If your concerns are being drowned out by the screams and yells of the vast majority of conspiracy-theory-believing members of conservative America, then your problem is with them, and not with anyone else.
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
I'm not as drunk on partisan ignorance as you may think. My positions stay fairly the same, it's the political parties who waver back in forth. I was battling Republicans/Conservatives and their ignorance on Muslims, Hindu practioners, Terrorism Fear Porn, Ra-Ra Freedom Fries, opposition to O'Reilly/Limbaugh, and much else more than a decade ago. And I still feel the same way about those very topics today.
I mean, it's telling, right?
He expresses it with the intent of demonstrating that the government is malicious, and that any claims they'll "help" are to be feared.
While in charge of said government.
He ripped the face off the inherent and deliberate malice that the Republican Party has represented since at least the Southern Strategy. The problem is we took his accidental honesty as a joke, because nobody could be stupid enough to say the quiet part out loud.
Except he did. Because Reagan was more than a bit of a moron.
Let's put this in context; the title is "is the Left hurting freedom of expression by suppressing Conservative Expression?"
And BronzeCondor has, in the course of this thread, identified "conservative expression" as being;
1> Outright, rank bigotry
2> Violent domestic terrorism
3> Conspiracy theories, and
4> Propaganda meant as disinformation.
Sure, those things are being attacked. And they should be. Because each one is directly harmful. Pretending that opposing these is an attempt to "hurt freedom of expression" falls right into Category #4 there; it's disinformation propaganda. A deliberate, malicious lie.
Case in point right there.
“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”
I'm simply asking for a thread where that is a more appropriate topic of conversation. As you can imagine, the subject matter can get pretty extensive with the amount of misinformation that's out there. I prefer not to clog up this thread with that.
Don't forget the .
Is it though?
In hindsight, with what we now know about past government funded programs?
I'm sure most of us can think of examples like the NSA recordings etc.
And many far worse than that done in secret etc.
There are degrees of distrust surely.
It's not all tin foil hats.
60 something court cases that present literally zero viable evidence and you still trying to say "legitimate concerns" is a fucking joke, there was no legitimate concerns in any context
the blind "leading" the blindI can't tell you how many Trump supporters or Conservatives I've had to walk back from the edge of Conspiracy Blackholes