Raging hypocrisy of the Right

[Father Heathen]

They cry about freedom of speech when private companies prevent them from spreading disinformation and hate speech on their platforms, but then turn around and toss the 1st amendment into the trash when it comes to pushing their religious/ideological agenda.

Book ban efforts surging in 2022, library association says

Now where has this happened before?

 

[Twilight Hue]

*yawn*Probably same lines as the raging hypocrisy of the left.

California Democrats Seek To Ban Books, Speech That Violate LGBT Priorities | The Daily Wire

Democrats are now banning books for an unbelievable reason | Culture Watch News

Pretty much the bottom line here.

When it comes to banning books, both Right and Left are guilty | Opinion

/thread

 

[lewisnotmiller]

As a centrist-ish type, I'd agree both sides are hypocritical and think it's more important to point out instances of hypocrisy than assess an entire group.

I do all this whilst ignoring the hypocrisy of the centre, of course.

 

[SomeRandom]

I think hypocrisy and politics are practically synonymous lol

 

[SomeRandom]

*yawn*Probably same lines as the raging hypocrisy of the left.

California Democrats Seek To Ban Books, Speech That Violate LGBT Priorities | The Daily Wire

Democrats are now banning books for an unbelievable reason | Culture Watch News

Pretty much the bottom line here.

When it comes to banning books, both Right and Left are guilty | Opinion

/thread

You know, for a country that continuously boasts about freedom of speech, you guys sure do have a lot of book bans.
Incidentally many have contributed to my own classroom reading. So thanks, for that??


Unrelated but did Ben Shapiro unironically defend the continued use of the long discredited and unscientific conversion therapy in the article you cited? The first one you linked, I mean?
It seems like it.
That’s just….wow.
Freedom to deny your sexual orientation is still freedom, I guess???

 

[Shadow Wolf]

*yawn*Probably same lines as the raging hypocrisy of the left.

California Democrats Seek To Ban Books, Speech That Violate LGBT Priorities | The Daily Wire

Democrats are now banning books for an unbelievable reason | Culture Watch News

Pretty much the bottom line here.

When it comes to banning books, both Right and Left are guilty | Opinion

/thread

Whatever. The article mentions libraries being threatened over books they don't even have. That's both extreme in stupidity and ideology.
And conversation therapy is damaging, so, yeah, it falls under a different category, kind of like the Anarchist Cookbook (except that's a major danger to self as well as others).

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

*yawn*Probably same lines as the raging hypocrisy of the left.

California Democrats Seek To Ban Books, Speech That Violate LGBT Priorities | The Daily Wire

Democrats are now banning books for an unbelievable reason | Culture Watch News

Pretty much the bottom line here.

When it comes to banning books, both Right and Left are guilty | Opinion

/thread

Yes, the Right and the Left both contribute to the "nanny state" that we've heard so much about in political threads.

 

[Twilight Hue]

You know, for a country that continuously boasts about freedom of speech, you guys sure do have a lot of book bans.
Incidentally many have contributed to my own classroom reading. So thanks, for that??


Unrelated but did Ben Shapiro unironically defend the continued use of the long discredited and unscientific conversion therapy in the article you cited? The first one you linked, I mean?
It seems like it.
That’s just….wow.
Freedom to deny your sexual orientation is still freedom, I guess???

I personally think librarys should remain a bastion for the free exchange of information and literature that anyone can access and enjoy.

It should be inclusive not exclusive of whatever people put in print and the influence of politics should be the only thing banned here.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Yes, the Right and the Left both contribute to the "nanny state" that we've heard so much about in political threads.

Of course. It's a toxic trend that's ripping our freedoms apart. I hate and despise any politicians that engage in this cancer and will not support them unless they change their ways.

 

[SomeRandom]

I personally think librarys should remain a bastion for the free exchange of information and literature that anyone can access and enjoy.

It should be inclusive not exclusive of whatever people put in print and the influence of politics should be the only thing banned here.

I wholeheartedly agree.
But schools generally tend to be more restrictive by virtue of being schools
Given that most who access said material will be minors by default.
Unless US schools allow pornography in their libraries?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Unless US schools allow pornography in their libraries?

Oh that would be National Geographic. *grin*

 

[SomeRandom]

Oh that would be National Geographic. *grin*

Wow. US porn must be kinkier than I thought!

 

[Twilight Hue]

Wow. US porn must be kinkier than I thought!

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Heh. Seriously National Geographic was one of my most favorite mags when I was in school.

I absolutely loved the maps and high altitude photography of various places in the world before Google world came out.

I would spend hours looking at them with a magnifier.

I would hate to see school librarys reduced to political choices with a narrow lens of choices for its students just because of subjects that some find lacking that others don't find lacking angers or upsets them for one reason or another.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Whatever. The article mentions libraries being threatened over books they don't even have. That's both extreme in stupidity and ideology.
And conversation therapy is damaging, so, yeah, it falls under a different category, kind of like the Anarchist Cookbook (except that's a major danger to self as well as others).

I think people get over paranoid over things like 'indoctrination' and the like.

 

[Father Heathen]

*yawn*Probably same lines as the raging hypocrisy of the left.

California Democrats Seek To Ban Books, Speech That Violate LGBT Priorities | The Daily Wire

Democrats are now banning books for an unbelievable reason | Culture Watch News

Pretty much the bottom line here.

When it comes to banning books, both Right and Left are guilty | Opinion

/thread

I certainly don't agree with anyone whos want to resort to censorship regardless of their political leanings.
That said, a lot of people to routinely abandon their values and principles when it comes to their own allegiances. For example, people who loudly denounce infidelity, fornication, etc. will suddenly go silent when someone on "their side" gets caught. Another example is that a lot of the people who screech about free speech and taunt others for being "offended snowflakes" would squeal with rage if they saw someone burning the flag.

 

[Father Heathen]

I think people get over paranoid over things like 'indoctrination' and the like.

No strait guy is going to start magically craving "sausage" just because he read some book about LGBT.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I think people get over paranoid over things like 'indoctrination' and the like.

Most definitely that happens. That's why these LGBT books are getting banned. But that's misguided and misplaced.
The stuff you linked to is people crying over a dangerous and well condemned (by science and medicine) practice being banned. No different than banning cocaine and heroin in medications, especially to the general public.

 

[Shaul]

Are they as hypocritical as RF posters who only criticize the right but never the left?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Are they as hypocritical as RF posters who only criticize the right but never the left?

I can see criticism justified , but not when the critics do the exact same things themselves and further refuse to admit they do the same exact things in turn.

 

[Father Heathen]

Are they as hypocritical as RF posters who only criticize the right but never the left?

No more than RF posters who only criticize the left but never the right.