I'm trying to point out to the censorial wing of the left that if they support censorship, they'll be among its victims. I agree the right sometimes suffers too, but historically, they've been the ones who promote it.
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Replying to @WillShetterly @charlesmurray
The left is always pro-censorship, from the French Revolution to the Bolsheviks to today’s identity left. The right stands for freedom. The left supports free speech to the extent it can be used to seize power, then it squashes the right absolutely.
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Replying to @tomxhart @charlesmurray
The freedom that the right stands for was the freedom to own slaves. Now it stands for the freedom to rent them.
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Replying to @WillShetterly @charlesmurray
The left merely changes private slavery of a sort that allows for a liberty-loving elite into an absolute slavery in obedience to the state. The left creates societies, such as the USSR, where no one is free and everyone is a slave.
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Replying to @tomxhart @charlesmurray
Do you think Orwell wasn't a leftist? “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.” —George Orwell
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Replying to @WillShetterly @charlesmurray
Orwell was on the left initially. Then he realised it results in mass murder and doesn’t work. His later work is anti-socialist—officially he clung on to calling himself a leftist, but he was leaving the left as he died (see, cooperating with MI5 against commies).
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Replying to @tomxhart @charlesmurray
Okay, your ideology is so profound you cannot even read what he said, or understand that his list was not of communists in general but of Stalinists in particular.
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And a friendly tip: if you don't want people to laugh at you, don't suggest you know more about socialism and communism than George Orwell.
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Replying to @WillShetterly @charlesmurray
I resent your passive aggressiveness. I don’t think Orwell was right about everything, because I think for myself rather than reasoning from authority. Morons are welcome to laugh at me.
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Replying to @tomxhart @charlesmurray
Would you prefer to resent my aggressiveness? I believe in civility, but grant I sometimes fail. You are right to want to think for yourself, but that requires knowing your topic well. Saying Orwell knew this better than you is a simple fact. Have you read Homage to Catalonia?
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I believe in aggression and argument to seek the truth. No, it’s not a fact at all. Orwell can and was mistaken about many things, starting with believing in socialism in the first place—since it’s a wicked and false doctrine. I read all his published works.
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