Recent events prove that American conservatives hate free speech just as much as American liberals. After years and years of whining that the hegemonic “left” is suppressing conservatives, right-wingers pounced on the opportunity to smash free speech… against Israel.
Consider this gleeful reporting from The Blaze cheering reprisals against Harvard students who dared condemn the master race Israel:
Four days into the war, in which over 1,000 Israelis and at least 22 Americans have been killed, some students are now waking up to the prospect that in their rush to denounce Israel and equate the mass murder of civilians by Islamist militants to “resistance,” they may have jeopardized their future career plans. Others have already begun to reap the whirlwind.
Goys, I mean guys, don’t you think it is extremely important for Americans to be able to voice opposition against a war, and sympathize with one side or the other, without fear of retaliation? I guess conservatives don’t feel that’s important, and they never did.
What exactly is wrong with an American saying he supports Palestine, or Hamas, or whoever? We’re not at war with them. Israel is. Are you telling me it is a crime for an American to voice opposition against Israeli interests? While I’m not aware of Americans actually facing legal (as opposed to economic and career) risks for supporting Palestine, that is now the reality for people in the “garden of Europe.” The UK, France, and Germany have all effectively outlawed the Palestinian perspective. Sorry, but where was all this nationalism for their own people?
Bottom line, I think right-wing Americans are just enjoying an increasingly rare opportunity to be bullies. It’s the exact equivalent of a bullied schoolboy joining the bullies to hurt a different kid. But this doesn’t make American conservatives look powerful, it just makes them look pathetic, and they apparently are so lacking in self-awareness they don’t even realize it.
Ian Kummer
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Well, people want power to deal with their enemies (real or imaginary), not to fight for justice or work for anyone’s wellbeing. And, yes, ppl like to be bullies
Conservatives? Don’t you mean Neoconservatives, Neocons? Then there are the Neolibs. They’re two sides of the Uniparty. I have taken to calling them Nazis. The US government is controlled by Neocon Nazis, Neolib Nazis, Femi-Nazis and Zio-Nazis.
In the FJB Administration we have a Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of Homeland Security (Border anyone?), Director of Department of Justice and Senate Majority Leader. What do they all have in common? Then there’s AIPAC. They’re all Zio-Nazis!
I am not an Antisemite. A large segment of Israeli Jews are against the Zio-Nazis and support the Palestinian People. I stand with them.
The systematic liquidation of the Palestinians which began with the terrorist Irgun in 1947 is the Zio-Nazi Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem.
American Conservatives ARE liberals! They may have some different policy preferences than your typical progressive shitlib, but at the end of the day they are all idealists.
Point taken Sir. I was using conventional terms foisted by the media.
Speaking of media, look into who controls CNN.
Not much lately from Ian. He must be working hard on his book.