Over at the Daily Caller I got a piece published about the Charlie Hebdo tragedy. Take a look:
This use of violence to silence “offensive” speech is structurally identical to hate speech laws, the only difference is that it was vigilantes that executed “justice” this time. I’m not calling supporters of hate speech laws insensitive and I’m not saying that they support terrorism. I am saying that their goals are identical to those of the men in who committed this atrocity. Those goals are to suppress “offensive” or “harmful” or “hateful” speech through coercion and government action is inherently coercive. Progressives seem to only want to make this violent suppression more systematic through the use of the legal system.
Thanks a lot to the wise and handsome opinion editor over there.
Just because they don’t shoot you dead, doesn’t mean what they are doing is not violence.
And this incident proves to me (as do many others) that nobody is really against violence nowadays, they just cheer on certain “acceptable” violence and get upset if someone else cheers the violence they don’t approve of.
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