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Google "Antifa silences speaker," and you'll find literally hundreds of cases of exactly that (I just did to verify).
by lowkey_ 7mo ago
Google "Antifa silences speaker," and you'll find literally hundreds of cases of exactly that (I just did to verify).
- pixl97 7mo agoAh yes, when the first result on Google is from a group known as a right wing think tank... >American Enterprise Institute, a prominent center-right think tank in Washington, D.C., that promotes free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty through research and policy advocacy in areas like economics, foreign policy, and social studies I too can get paid think tanks to publish hundreds of reports on how communists are taking over America... Doesn't mean communists are actually taking over America.
- lowkey_ 7mo ago[flagged]
- thunderfork 7mo agoThrough what mechanism do they "shut down speech"?
- direwolf20 7mo agoWhen a Nazi wants to speak on a college campus, they point out the speaker is a Nazi and the administration cancels the speaking appointment. But not really, because administrations are fine with Nazis giving speeches. The actual reality is that 5-20 people stand near the speaking place with picket signs reading "this guy is a Nazi". The Nazi speaks as planned, and the listeners (who are also Nazis) complain the speech was shut down. Joe Rogan called himself cancelled. Literally the biggest podcaster in the world who says anything he wants to. Complains that he can't say anything and has no audience. It's all grift.
- cortesoft 7mo agoThose articles are using the word 'antifa' as a slur, not as an organization. It is like saying "the woke mob silenced a speaker", it doesn't mean anything. There isn't a 'woke organization' that is planning anything
- lowkey_ 7mo agoA movement is better terminology than an organization, fair. But okay - I'm confused what sources you would accept? There are "Antifa" groups on social media that literally advocate for doing this, I've seen it first-hand.
- cortesoft 7mo agoSure, but since anyone can claim the term, what is to stop someone from creating a false flag group on social media to make them look bad?
- 4MOAisgoodenuf 7mo agoGoogling “earth is flat” nets you thousands of results from very passionate people willing to share their experience and expertise. (I just did to verify)
- stefanfisk 7mo agoI Googles that exact string and I can't say that I see even enough cases to count on one hand. Do you have any concrete examples that you think are representative for the behavior that you are referencing?
- Y-bar 7mo agoWhich SPECIFIC persons are being silenced and which SPECIFIC topics were they attempting to speak on? It’s a huge diff between someone being ”silenced” for speaking their minds on bike paths versus being ”silenced” for indirectly or even directly promoting a new holocaust. And from your vague responses it is not clear.
- xracy 7mo agoI don't think you understand what "silencing" is. If they were actually silenced, you wouldn't be able to find anything about it online. People who are "silenced" are not "googleable with 100s of examples."
- seattle_spring 7mo agoI guarantee it's just a bunch of heavily edited clips of people like Tim Pool being told they're idiots by college kids.
- etchalon 7mo agoConservative speakers are so very sensitive to being called stupid.