March 6, 2021 at 2:59 a.m.
Left seeks to ban speech it hates
Letter to the editor
To the editor:
While I normally disagree with Michael Kinser, his letter to the editor regarding our giving up critical thinking was excellent.
He explains how our privacy and freedom have been co-opted by Facebook, Twitter and Google. He also stated the truism that algorithms can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction.
Aaron Loy built on that idea with his letter stating that differing opinions are important to preserving freedom and democracy.
Republicans have always held that the answer to speech you don’t like is more speech. Unfortunately, some on the left support the idea that the answer to speech you don’t like is silencing the voices of the opposition. First, it was shadow banning and now it is openly banning conservative voices from social media. And while the excuse is that they are banning hate speech, the truth is that they are banning speech that they hate.
An example of Democrat hate speech was on the same page as Kinser’s letter in a column from Colbert I. King of the Washington Post. He states that senators voted to acquit Trump “not on the merits but because they are scared to death of Trump and his base.” And, “We knew that Republican senators, as jurors, would betray their oaths to defend the Constitution.”
Three times the haters in the house voted to impeach Trump on charges which had no basis in reality or that met constitutional standards of common sense or due process. He was impeached for a quid pro quo with the Ukraine despite the fact that every witness admitted they had no actual proof he did. He was impeached for failing to comply with illegal subpoenas that Schiff issued before the House voted him subpoena power. And he was impeached for a speech asking his supporters to protest “peacefully” and despite the FBI saying the attack on the capital was planned before his speech.
It was in fact every Democrat and a handful of Republicans who based their votes on hate or partisan politics and in doing so spit on the Constitution and even more deeply divided our Republic.
Stephen Erwin
Portland
While I normally disagree with Michael Kinser, his letter to the editor regarding our giving up critical thinking was excellent.
He explains how our privacy and freedom have been co-opted by Facebook, Twitter and Google. He also stated the truism that algorithms can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction.
Aaron Loy built on that idea with his letter stating that differing opinions are important to preserving freedom and democracy.
Republicans have always held that the answer to speech you don’t like is more speech. Unfortunately, some on the left support the idea that the answer to speech you don’t like is silencing the voices of the opposition. First, it was shadow banning and now it is openly banning conservative voices from social media. And while the excuse is that they are banning hate speech, the truth is that they are banning speech that they hate.
An example of Democrat hate speech was on the same page as Kinser’s letter in a column from Colbert I. King of the Washington Post. He states that senators voted to acquit Trump “not on the merits but because they are scared to death of Trump and his base.” And, “We knew that Republican senators, as jurors, would betray their oaths to defend the Constitution.”
Three times the haters in the house voted to impeach Trump on charges which had no basis in reality or that met constitutional standards of common sense or due process. He was impeached for a quid pro quo with the Ukraine despite the fact that every witness admitted they had no actual proof he did. He was impeached for failing to comply with illegal subpoenas that Schiff issued before the House voted him subpoena power. And he was impeached for a speech asking his supporters to protest “peacefully” and despite the FBI saying the attack on the capital was planned before his speech.
It was in fact every Democrat and a handful of Republicans who based their votes on hate or partisan politics and in doing so spit on the Constitution and even more deeply divided our Republic.
Stephen Erwin
Portland
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