"If this sort of censorship was being threatened by debt-ridden students rather than actually carried out by powerful institutions acting in solidarity with a nuclear state killing thousands of civilians, it would be catnip for the Ben Shapiros of the world.

Instead, with a few exceptions, these once loud and incessant free speech defenders have bowed their heads and fallen silent. In [many] cases they’ve been actively complicit in the reprisals." https://www.webworm.co/p/biggesthypocrites

The World’s Biggest Hypocrites?

Free speech is actually under threat - and our loudest free speech warriors are nowhere to be found.

Webworm with David Farrier
@taylorlorenz We live in a world where “libertarians” want to make birth control and homosexuality illegal so this fits

@taylorlorenz

Israel has “children”, while Palestinians have “people aged 18 and younger”.

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@taylorlorenz I was watching the Sinéad O’Connor doc “Nothing Compares” last night and this line really stuck with me.
@taylorlorenz because they don't *actually* care about free speech, it's just word games to them. They would happily restrict the rights of trans people speaking or Palestinian activists if they could.