What is it about many left-wing web users and this aversion they have to free speech? I mean, is there some ingredient in tofu or Mangotinis that I need to steer clear of? Is Ralph Nader some sort of sinister Svengali?
Because I gotta tell you, I never did completely trust that guy—and my opinion of him only worsened when I lent him my Jeep a couple of Augusts ago so he could take some friends four-wheeling in Moab, only to have him try to convince me, when he finally showed up two days late to return it, that I’d really lent him a 1976 Pinto with a rusted out rear panel and Pad Thai stains in the back seat.
He almost had me believing it, too. The miserable demonic prick.
Mr Goldstein, surely by now you know that our friends on the left are concerned with their freedom of speech, not your freedom of speech.
Seems to me that this is eerily reminiscent of our mutual friend The Liberal Avenger and his creative editing of someone’s comment on his site. LA never did understand why Patterico and others took that to be a serious offense.
Well, yeah. I was kinda being rhetorical.
I’d loan my car to Paris Hilton before I’d loan it to Ralph Nader. If I recall correctly, he’s never even held a driver’s license. So… it’s sorta your own fault.
Just like the free speech thing.
You’re going to end up with stains on the back seat either way.
And to make things worse, those weirdos are now saying that the attack on the Death Star was an inside job.
Will the madness never cease?
Yo no habla ingles, senor…
That’s nothing. Asked me what happened when I loaned that ingrate my Corvair for a weekend.
Jeff- speech where you can be held socially responsible for what you say is hardly free. That’s not only a significant impingement- it’s a total downer too.
Nor is there a guarantee you’ll get your car back.
I should ban myself just knowing that link…
Hey whaddya know? The article I was trying to link was already blacklisted.
Close. The common misconception is that the acronym BDS means Bush Derangement Syndrome. That is actually a serendipitous reuse for the term, though it can be argued that the etiology of the underlying disorder makes it an apt one.
BDS actually stands for BoronicDeStupify. It is a food additive in wide use in college dining commons intended to mitigate the effects of THC. It has the unfortunate side effect where students unlucky enough to possess certain genetic markers are predisposed to react in a way that enhances the presentation of stupification rather than suppress it and in a large percentage of those cases, the effects are long term and present themselves for years after no longer eating in college commons. It is important to understand that college academics who also both possess the genetic markers and eat occasionally in the cafe are unlikely to shake the effects off throughout their association with the college and for years afterwards.
The issue will age out at some point as I understand the FDA is on it. BDS would have been banned from college cafes some years ago except for resistance by the Haliburton Corp. Historically, it’s been a big money maker for them.
The rest of the people exhibiting the commonly accepted symptoms of BDS are just assholes.
See, the deal is that the Left consists of victims: the poor, the disenfranchised, the powerless, the voiceless.
It’s an article of faith that the leftist view points of The People are being completely drowned out by capitalist, corporate propaganda big-voices.
This means it’s crucial to block messages from the right, because otherwise, the left will never be heard. Meanwhile, leftist activists must be as shrill and blaring as possible, simply to be noticed against the thundering rumble of the Capitalist Machine. Bullhorns, banners, and paper mache giant puppet heads are the only tools the downtrodden have to make their own points, so they must monkey-wrench the rightist propaganda war wagon.
Or, in short: Leftists believe in their hearts that they are losers. They need not be responsible in word or deed because, after all, they’re powerless.
They’ve completely missed their own acquisition of a serious, big time media machine. Worse, they’ve failed to notice that they now have their hands on the actual levers of powers, and that their dramatic posturing is actually changing the way things work.
And what is it with Glenn Greenwald excoriating certain righty blogs for not allowing comments? Oliver Kamm is technically a lib, British division, but he seems to always come down on the conservative side of the global issues. He doesn’t allow comments, and his site is as classy a blog as there is. In fact, it’s so classy he doesn’t even answer my emails!
Nat Hentoff wrote a book about this a while back – “Free Speech for Me, but Not for Thee”, iirc.
I didn’t read it, I was tossing it along with an armful of lefty books onto the “Contract for America” bonfire/bookburning back in the day and happened to read the back flap.
It seemed pretty interesting, the title is topial, and it burned pretty quickly so it must not be too long of a read either.
Rove does not suffer the lesser politicojedi gladly, I’m sure he’ll deal with it as he sees fit.
Also, at least the Thai stains wouldn’t be able to move by themselves. Just saying.
I guess there are a lot of unemployed lefties with a lot of time on their hands. Let’s get productive people!!
by the way, Jeff- great “The Warriors” reference.
Silas RULED!
I got in to it recently with my local Nashville liberal feminist blog representatives- the aptly titled “Tennessee Guerilla Women”-about that story in DC where the inner city kid died because he had an abssessed tooth that turned in to bacterial menangitis. Of course the argument was that lack of healthcare killed the poor kid, not well, bacterial menangitis caused by an abssessed tooth. Of course I was dumb enough to wade in to the fever swamp. When they weren’t busy trying to come up with new clever terms for calling me a “greedy capitalist” they were essentially telling me to shut up.
Good times.
Oh yeah, and I forgot…….
WOLVEREEEEEEEENNNNNNSSSSSSS!!!!
banning him ought to teach him.