As I have written many, many times in this blog, I consider myself a free speech absolutist: The fundamental right to free speech is both universal (ie. it applies to everybody regardless of anything) and inalienable (ie. it cannot be removed, restricted or punished regardless of who that person is or what he may have done), and I have always strongly subscribed to the sentiment written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who attributed it to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you are saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
And I have always had that attitude: I might disagree with many people, particularly with modern far-leftists, and sometimes I may even find their opinions absolutely repugnant, but I have always had the attitude of defending their fundamental right to express those opinions, freely and without punishment. If, for example, some far-leftist was banned from some platform for something heinous that he might have said, I was at least metaphorically on the frontlines defending that person's right to be there and express those opinions. Even if someone with such absolutely despicable opinions like Hasan Piker were to be banned from some platform for expressing those opinions, I would have still opposed that decision and defended his right to express them without being restricted or punished.
Well, that's over now.
After a couple of decades of having held that stance, I'm ending it. Or more particularly, I'm ending it when it comes to modern far-leftists. I will still defend the rights of other people, but not them. They are done. I don't have any more fucks to give when it comes to them.
This is the result of over a decade of constant abuse. They want to silence and punish anybody that disagrees with them, and have been actively and very aggressively campaigning for it for a couple of decades now. Not only do they want to end free speech, but moreover they demonize and vilify the people who disagree with them, and particularly over the last 10 years they have radicalized their own side on this, and normalized political violence, in other words terrorism among their own ranks. They consider themselves superior and their opponents to be less than human.
What they did to Charlie Kirk and, particularly, their absolutely despicable inhumane psychopathic reaction to his tragic murder is only the top of the iceberg, but for me it's the tipping point:
I'm done. No more.
I will not advocate for their "deplatforming", but I will not be defending them in any way either. If any of them gets fired or banned from somewhere because of their expression of opinion, then cry me a river. I don't give a fuck anymore. I'll play the world's smallest violin. They can go fuck themselves for all I care. If they get fired from their jobs or banned from online platforms or whatever, then so be it. I won't be there defending them. Good riddance, I say.
Would Charlie Kirk himself have wanted me to make this change in my attitude, if we could have had this conversation? Most probably not. But I will just have to live with the reality that he was a much better person than I am. I'm out of fucks to give. No more. I'm done defending the rights of far-leftist terrorists and psychopaths. I don't care one iota what happens to them. None. Doesn't matter what happens to them, I don't care.
(Oh, and if they catch the culprit and sentence him to death? I usually oppose the death penalty for the same reason I oppose abortion. However, in this case I have no fucks left to give. Whatever they do to him is fine by me. If they sentence him to death, then fine, I literally couldn't care less.)
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