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A new Cato Institute survey found that 77% of right-wingers are afraid to give their political opinions compared to 6 in 10 leftists, who said they feel free to say whatever they want.
Overall, 62% of Americans do not express their views or values due to fear of punishment and retaliation.
Republican voters with college degrees cited the threat of job termination as the mechanism for censorship. 60% of post-graduates with right-leaning beliefs state that they will be made unemployed if they were ever to be found out.
Elite commentators will often defend repression in America by pointing out that the tyranny and political control is often exercised by powerful private entities using private means. A recent poll by Rasmussen reveals that nobody is falling for this semantic game. Only 26% of Americans believe we have true freedom of speech.
Big business in the past would contract private Pinkerton agents to massacre striking workers, while the Sackler family has deliberately murdered untold thousands with its opiates and will get away with it. Privatized tyranny and terror is still tyranny and terror. The Jewish NGOs, mainstream media and corporations crushing dissent in America are as totalitarian as any state that has ever been accused of the same.
On top of this, the state plays an important role as a subject of plutocracy. Stories of police investigating and charging white people for First Amendment protected speech minorities find distasteful are increasingly common and no civil liberties organization has protested. The conservative majority Supreme Court found that people must be forced to use a transsexuals made up pronouns in public spaces or risk violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The main triggers for repression in the liberal West are questions of Jewish power, white nationalism, the Holocaust, racial differences, paraphiliac sexuality, immigration and Israel.
Conservatives who claim to be outraged by “cancel culture” by and large agree with the left that “politically incorrect” opinions on the above topics should be censored, making their defense of the First Amendment little more than a fraud. The Jew Zack Beauchamp, in defense of censoring his political opponents, correctly points out that conservatives making noise about cancel culture will never speak up in defense of historians put in prison under Germany’s “Holocaust denial” laws.
Even more ridiculous are some of the figures looking to defuse growing popular anger at Jewish organizations that have eroded the First Amendment, like the Anti-Defamation League, which is behind tech censorship.
Bari Weiss, a Zionist who put on a show and quit the New York Times in an attempt to carve out controlled opposition for conservatives, is a member of the ADL and even was a keynote speaker at their conference last year. Another member of the Jewish controlled opposition, Yascha Mounk, whose screed The People Vs Democracy is an attack on the very idea of majority rule, is also engaging in tepid, fake protests.
On the Harper’s Letter on Justice and Open Debate, Beauchamp points out that the hypocrites decrying attacks on free speech did not ask actual victims of censorship like Richard Spencer or any other “racist” to sign.
Jewry feels the need to take emergency measures in order to shut down what they see as a very real Fascist or National Socialist white existential threat. For conservatives, this is a problem, since it makes dogwhistles and symbolic plays to the white majority — their bread and butter — almost impossible. It is now against America’s unwritten constitution for a center-right figure to articulate anything approaching the truths the public witnesses with its own eyes on a day to day basis.
At this point, the phony right — entirely to blame for the erasure of free expression — is reduced to begging for exceptions to be made for them so that real Fascists and Nazis are not handed the monopoly on reason and facts.
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Too bad for right-wing Americans who “fear” to express opinions they think the left doesn’t like when I get called “anti-semitic” for exposing Noahide (and Unz won’t put up a post exposing it either), for defending the rights of Palestinian Christians–heck even Christian Zionists have no regard for these fellow Christians!–for telling Christians and others quoting the Bible (1 John 2:21) that “he that hath not the Son” (that is, Talmudic Jews and others) “hath not the Father, but he who hath the Son hath the Father also” and getting called “anti-semitic”…I figure if right-wingers are afraid to be called “anti-semitic” they’ll be just as afraid of being called “racist”…but God forbid one should disagree with their hatred of Muslims, let alone their fealty toward Talmudic Jewry that HATES JESUS AND HATES CHRISTIANS!
What goes around comes around….
Please learn some basic English, this was practically incomprehensible. Which also might be the reason Unz doesn’t publish your post.
It’s actually pretty simple: if Cato’s numbers are accurate – which I believe they are – then ALL POLLS REGARDING THE ELECTION RESULTS ARE WORTHLESS.
See you in November.
Only 77%? My guess is that the other 23% are not especially courageous, but that they don’t have a single independent thought in their head. They could never think anything offensive because their only criteria for thinking at all is “Should I be thinking this? Is this approved?”
Why are people afraid? They think if they voice their opinion, they will be attacked, by voice of by other means. We have always be able to talk about anything but today we might have to be careful unless we know the person very well.
It’s like anything else in life. You are going to have to take risks and deal with possible blow back to freely state your opinion. It’s not right. We’re supposed to have a Constitution to protect our right to speak freely. But freedom is never free.
Cancel culture is the result of social pressure to conform. Speak freely, take the hit, and damn the consequences. Zero Fucks Given!
That is the language of college sophmores.
Adults deal with the world as it is, whether they like it or not.
Most folks have to make a living, and that means bending the knee to those who rule over them.
Masters don’t want slaves talking about masters and slaves.
For most of my life I considered myself slightly left and voted Democratic. I’ve watched with growing shock as the Democratic Party has degenerated into something truly grotesque. At this point I find a lot to agree with the ‘right’ although some opinions still seem unreasonable. I agree completely with those who are fearful of the mass media, and ‘diversity’-crazed Corporate Culture (driven by HR departments). I am baffled as to why this is supported by what seems to be a majority of our oligarchs. Very glad to retire last year, it was becoming painful.
What is the answer? Well, there is still voting. One can hope there is still something called the ‘Silent Majority’ that will vote against these extremists … I would never have guessed that politicians like Ted Wheeler existed. Unfortunately they are not all up for re-election in November, but I hope those that are, go down to crashing defeats.
I agree partially. We have to look at the world as it is, rather than what we want it to be. But we can’t give up on what we want it to be, otherwise it will always be terrible.
The all-powerful HR lady strikes again!
It’s not that I’m afraid to express my opinion. I know that lying my ass off to political telephone polling screws up their results. Have fun with this.
You Radical Leftists actually think us Right Wingers are scared to death of you? Better think again!!!!