Thread by @ggreenwald

Censorship never was a left-wing tactic. Opposing censorship was never the hallmark of right-wing values. And censorship is never aimed at one ideology or the other, but at *dissent* from the ruling class wherever it comes from.

Listen to Noam Chomsky:

Read how Chomsky, in 1981, object to the attempts to have a tenured professor in France fired for Holocaust revisionism, because Chomsky knew that that framework, once implanted, would be used against people like him, Edward Said, Howard Zinn, etc.:

nytimes.com/1981/01/01/wor…

Here's the ACLU today explaining why it's so proud of its decision in 1977 to represent a neo-Nazi group's right to march through Skokie, Illinois, a town filled with Holocaust survivors.

aclu.org/other/aclu-his…

Here's Ira Glasser -- the ACLU Executive Director from 1978 to 2001 -- explaining to me why resisting all censorship, including of far-right views, is a vital expression of leftist values and especially Jewish and Civil Rights left-wing values.

theintercept.com/2020/10/20/is-…

In case anyone is confused, *that* is the tradition in which I believe, the values I follow, the people I most respect. Label it how you want. Accuse people who defend these crucial rights of whatever you want: we love Nazis, racists, etc. etc.

Don't care. This is what's noble.