stop wondering about when the fascism ball is gonna drop. you’ve long missed it. it’s been here the whole time matt-joker

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    I’d just go to class anyway and probably steal shit on my way out. They’re going to have to send cops in to arrest me for whatever bullshit they can come with. It’s not to first time students have done sit-ins. Maybe they can have a bunch of people who are not law students do that. Make them cancel finals because people are cramming into classrooms lmao

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    if they weren’t 100% full of shite, every single “free speech absolutist” twat would be enraged by this. however they care fuck all about rights, all they want is to be openly racists and everyone else to serve them

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      Obligatory Citations Needed episode

      We are often warned by conservatives, liberals and even some on the Left that we live in a time where “free speech” is under threat from far-left forces. “Political correctness” and “snowflakes” have shut down free inquiry, specifically on college campuses, and led to a crisis threatening the very foundation of our democracy.

      But the origins of the label “free speech” — as it’s currently practiced — paint a much messier picture. Rather than appealing to the Vietnam-era Berkeley protest glory days, what one sees when examining the history of the concept is a temporary tactic used by the Left in the mid-to-late 1960s that has, since that late 1980s, become a far-right wedge designed to open up space for racism, eugenics, genocide denial, trans and homophobia and anti-feminist backlash. Defense of the right to keep open this space as an appeal to a universal value hides a well-funded, coordinated far-right attempt to maintain a conservative, largely male and cishet version of political correctness.

      On this episode, we discuss where the contemporary concept of “free speech” comes from, what its uses and misuses have been and how a rose-tinted time of pristine, perfectly free" speech never really existed.

      We are joined by journalist and author P.E. Moskowitz and Chair of Princeton University’s Department of Anthropology Carolyn Rouse.

      https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/citationsneeded/CN88_20190925_freespeech_moskowitz_rouse_1.mp3?dest-id=542191