Friday, July 10, 2020
Leftists Freak Out After Noam Chomsky and Other Liberal Voices Declare Support for Free Speech
On Tuesday, Harper’s Magazine published an open letter co-signed mostly by prominent left-wing voices decrying the “intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty,” that has become fashionable amongst the younger generation of liberals. “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted,” the letter warned. “This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time.”
Signatories to the letter include Margaret Atwood, Gloria Steinem, J.K. Rowling, Matthew Yglesias, and other recognizable names within the entertainment industry, journalism, and academia, including famed left-wing anti-capitalist Noam Chomsky.
“Imagine going back in time and telling yourself in 2003 that the left would go too far for Noam Chomsky,” wrote Inez Stepman of The Federalist in response to the letter.
Naturally, liberals are freaking out, attacking Chomsky and others, predictably calling for them to be canceled.
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Naturally, liberals are freaking out, attacking Chomsky and others, predictably calling for them to be canceled.
And they can only blame themselves because they set the tone that led to this by not only not speaking out the first time this happened but by actually approving of it.
From the letter: "“The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted,” the letter warns. “,censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture:“While we have come to expect this on the radical right, . . ."
Even when disagreeing with cancel culture the left is unable to admit their own sins of commission. Anyone who watches what has happened in the past several years has seen the left silence opposing views. Case on point, Facebook caving to the left and now putting warning signs on conservative posts.
Other than that jab at the right there is nothing in the letter to disagree with.
Those apologizing for signing the letter are admitting that the left is viscous when it comes to dealing with those who appear to leave the party line.
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