(July 3, 2021 at 5:04 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Sure, you believe what you do about BLM and antifa...because Hitchens.
Can’t imagine why that’s not a remotely credible assertion. Can you?
I believe punching people for exercising their free speech is bad, and shutting down speech is bad, therefore I believe Antifa is bad. Do you seriously think I only believe committing violent acts against people is bad because Stefan Molyneaux or Gavin McInnes told me so? Yes, many people are indoctrinated or radicalized by youtube channels to believe some really dumb stuff. Just because that is the case, that doesn't mean that every person who supports the concept of free speech or free expression was brainwashed by Steven Crowder. That's not how reality works. Back when I was on Richard Dawkins forum all of those years ago and on other atheist forms, free speech was always the majority expressed position, by far. It's just recently that things are starting to turn the other way. I've been consistent with my values concerning free speech and anti-violence since I was a teenager or before that. The ones that are abandoning free speech, like the ACLU has, are the ones that are being radicalized, not me.
