Comments on: Watch Your Tongue: Media and Advocacy In The Age of Wrongthink https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:03:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Sam Langhorne https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/#comment-38321 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:03:39 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57732#comment-38321 Thank you for your use of a universally-recognized acknowledgment that I have defeated your argument.

Cordially,

SL

]]> By: dfleiss https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/#comment-38318 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 02:01:44 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57732#comment-38318 Thanks for clarifying for me what I’m saying. You should try pulling your head out of your ass every once in a while so you can hear voices besides the ones in your head.

]]> By: Sam Langhorne https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/#comment-38317 Wed, 10 Jun 2020 23:55:09 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57732#comment-38317 In reply to dfleiss.

Your argument is not for people taking responsibility, it’s for other people to freely censor those voices with ridiculous claims of “danger” if those opinions be heard. That’s not how it works in a democratic republic.

Your argument is the one AHF dictator Michael Weinstein made: that porn without condoms “send the wrong message.” In a free country, if Weinstein didn’t like the message of condoles porn, he was free to make the best goddamn condom porn the world had ever seen and compete with condoles porn in the marketplace of ideas.

Instead, his method, which you are endorsing here, is authoritarianism.

]]> By: dfleiss https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/#comment-38307 Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:22:55 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57732#comment-38307 You seem to have a reading comprehension problem. Where did I call for censorship? I explained why your claim that “Cotton’s words placed no one in imminent danger” was wrong. I think speech should be as free as possible, but I also think people need to take responsibility for what they say and write. (I also think that nobody has a “right” to a place on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, but that’s a different subject.)

]]> By: Karmafan https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/#comment-38306 Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:50:42 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57732#comment-38306 And once they are in power (like Mexico’s cartels) it is almost impossible to get rid of them.

]]> By: Sam Langhorne https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/#comment-38296 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 04:37:02 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57732#comment-38296 Correct. Anyone who wonders what happens when the law enforcement authority (good or bad) disappears only need to study the last two thousand years of history.

A vacuum is created and tribes — with warlords — arise. Think Iraq, or “Escape From New York”.

]]> By: Karmafan https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/#comment-38294 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 03:19:11 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57732#comment-38294 People now are being vilified for things they said 20-30 years ago when the times were different. In 20-30 years from now how far down the liberal SJW road will we be where we look back to whats being said and done in these times?

Also the City Council in Minneapolis wants to disband the police department? A few bad apples need to be punished for the cruelty and stupidity they have been doing but do away with your police force? I can see criminals all over North America getting ready to travel to Minneapolis and getting busy making money illegally or raping.

]]> By: Sam Langhorne https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/#comment-38293 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 02:39:42 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57732#comment-38293 You are completely wrong. He did not threaten anyone. YOU have interpreted a message of which you disapprove as “an invitation . . . to violate international human rights standards” that “threaten[ed] the safety of Black New Yorkers,” but the remainder of your comment makes it clear that you are a censorious idiot.

When Hitler published Mein Kampf, the institution that worked hardest to get an English translation published was The New School for Social Research — a liberal institution. They understood that this was a book by a dangerous man that everyone should read in order to understand just how terrifyingly dangerous he and his ideas were..

CUT TO: 2020

People like you, who wish to make the world into a censorious, hegemonic hug box, would deny us the opportunity to even evaluate and critique the arguments of people with unpopular views.

I pray that you are never able to fully do so, and I pledge every ounce of strength in my body and every resource at my disposal to stop you.

]]> By: dfleiss https://mikesouth.com/industry/watch-your-tongue-media-and-advocacy-in-the-age-of-wrongthink-57732/#comment-38292 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 01:45:57 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57732#comment-38292 You seem to have no understanding of what Tom Cotton wrote. He called for the military to be sent to police U.S. cities and “to show no quarter” to protesters. That’s an invitation for them to violate international human rights standards by shooting to kill suspected protesters on sight. Did it threaten the safety of Black New Yorkers, including writers at The New York Times? Hell, yes. It threatened the lives of anybody who has ever been profiled by police. It’s a shame that some people don’t understand that words have meanings, and they often cost other people their lives.

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