You seem to think the freedom of speech of the majority is being contested by someone.
That isn't being contested, as far as I'm aware. The consequences of the "Vocal Majority" stigmatizing and attempting to intimidate with terms like "traitors," and "OBL lovers," those Americans who have questions about present policy are what I am addressing.
If you can't see that shouting down dissenters is a threat to something we both believe in, freedom of speech, I can't make you see it. If you see it but don't care, I can't do anything about that, either.
To you, calls for shunning, and hurling epithets, and seeking scapegoats, is merely "venting," and being "vocal," and "the way certain people feel."
I think there's more to the First Amendment than the right to intimidate by attaching stigmatizing labels to those you don't like instead of dealing with their arguments, and although, as I said, I was under no illusion that anyone here would care, I still knew I'd feel better explicitly disassociating myself from the "traitors" school of thought.
Someone just posted an article to me containing this sentence:
Before September 11, Americans who reacted against the many hate-filled threats and insults directed at our country were labeled "paranoid" and instructed to blithely ignore such provocations.
Before September 11, if one issued warnings about the threat of terrorism against our country from fanatical, hate-filled Muslims, one was not only labeled "paranoid," but also "racist" and "culturally insensitive."
You folks are not the first to attempt to muzzle part of the population. Political correctness is about thought control and character assassination and shutting people up. And I suspect that this thread is about thought control and character assassination and shutting people up.
I know PC when I smell it, and I'm tired of it. |
