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#Aclu liberas free
This is why the State has been able to act against the speech of leftists in the past: whether it is arresting Emma Goldman for printing anarchist propaganda or assassinating Fred Hampton for organizing on the streets of Chicago, their actions prove that free speech is reserved for those that do not pose a challenge to power. This has a direct corollary: free speech is limited to only that which is ineffectual, that which cannot manifest itself as concrete action. The idea that even hate speech is protected under free speech relies on the assumption that speech cannot in and of itself be harmful. Thus some people have “more speech” than others.
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The Supreme Court has enshrined the idea that in the political arena, money counts as speech. Similarly, the marketplace of ideas has its own guardians and power structures maintaining the relations between people and their expression. The “free market” as extreme liberals (American libertarians) conceive it is a myth: without an authority to enforce contracts, it literally could not exist. The problem is that whether you are talking about a literal market or a marketplace of ideas, markets cannot exist without a framework providing the means of exchange and distribution. Freedom of speech is a right based on a “marketplace of ideas” that will inevitably see the best ideas rise to the top this is similar to how liberals see free markets as intrinsically fair and efficient. The liberal notion of free speech even for fascists such as Milo Yiannopoulos (who was just shut down in Chicago because you don’t bring that trash into my city) and Richard Spencer is, in essence, utilitarian. Leftists understand two things that make our understanding of free speech different: 1.) that constraints on negative liberties do not only come from the State, and 2.) that the distinction between positive and negative liberties is a screen. The positive form – the capacity for freedom of speech – is assumed to flow from the negative. Liberals understand free speech as a negative liberty – it is “free” only as long as it is free from external constraints. Veith lacks the self-awareness to understand that he too is a liberal, and is thus unable to conceive of something like “free speech” outside a liberal framework.īut “free speech” within a liberal capitalist framework is ultimately a sham, which is why leftists oppose it. Marxists and other leftists do take major issue with the liberal notion of free speech (and I want to thank Veith for distinguishing between leftists and liberals) but it is not because we are against the concept itself. I don’t believe for a minute that there will be any serious questioning of Democrats, as they will have been required to sign on to these issues before they are allowed to run for office.Probably because Marx never said anything of the sort. Definition: How many criminals can we put back on the streets and then restore their voting rights so they will vote Democrat? Definition: How do we make it easier for people to enter the country illegally because we’re pretty certain they will eventually vote Democrat. Definition: How can we make it easier for women to abort their children? Definition: How many people can we get registered to vote, legal or not, who will vote Democrat, and how can we make it easier to steal elections with absentee ballots? Every one of the issues the group wants candidates to address is a progressive talking point. At long last, the ACLU has publicly revealed itself for what it is: a partisan, far-left political organization ( Review-Journal Thursday editorial).