I appreciate this article very much, @bariweiss, @PamelaParesky & Nadine Strossen. But I think there are several issues here that must be distinguished, in order to clarify the rights of the speakers, vs those who financially enable them, either voluntarily or through compulsion:

1) The natural right of the individual to speak his/her mind, no matter how offensive to others, so long as it does not involve incitement of violence against others.

2) The natural right of individuals, separately and collectively, to not be forced to provide money "for the propagation of ideas [they] disbelieve and abhor is sinful and tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson

3) What rights said individuals possess, separately and collectively, if they live under a system that forces them to financially support all manner of speech to occur, mostly under the guise of "education," if said speech is:
(a) Inimical to their own, or which they know to be untrue
(b) Incites mass hatred against them because of their immutable or chosen characteristics

4) Under such a system, what guard rails must morally exist if the subsidized speech-makers are using those resources, and their power, to:
(a) Openly align with designated foreign or domestic terrorist organizations
(b) Are indoctrinating the young to believe lies, that lead them to also support such terrorist organizations

5) The obligations of a freely-elected government to ensure that our 5th Amendment protections are enforced, rigorously:

"No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

Our taxpayer-funded institutions have not only failed to teach the virtue of freedom of speech to our young people, it has so confounded the issue that many if not most are openly hostile to it, or reject it.

Examples follow in 2/.

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Research I've compiled, here:


[3.6] 19% of American college students overall (including 22% of Republican students) believe it is “acceptable” to initiate violence to prevent a invited guest from speaking on campus, if his/her critics claim s/he makes “offensive and hurtful statements.”

[3.7] 38 percent of American adults think the First Amendment “goes too far” in protecting freedom of expression.

[3.8] 45% of Republicans believe courts should have the power to shut down media outlets for publishing “biased,” or “inaccurate” information, while 20% disagree; 18% of Democrats support courts shutting such outlets down, while 39% disagree; 43% of Republicans believe President Trump “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior.”

[3.9] 51% of Democrats, and 37% of Republicans support passing a law that would criminalize “hate speech,” meaning any statement or expression that a racial, religious, sexual or ethnic minority might find offensive; 40 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 35 support government censorship of “statements that are offensive to minority groups.” UPDATE: In March 2017, a significant portion of Georgetown University students, as well as its Saudi–funded “Bridge Initiative,” opposed and shouted down a former Muslim who was invited to speak, about her criticism of sharia law, claiming she was engaging in “hate speech.”

[3.10] 39% of high school students disagree with the statement, “Newspapers should be allowed to freely publish without government approval of stories.”

Contd in 3/.jonsutz.com/america-at-the…

Remember: If you say anything in protest, you're a "right-wing extremist" who is "literally placing their lives in danger."

Right, @ADL?

Continued.

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https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1673063225976397824

@ADL 2/

Remember: Silence, you haters. Especially when it comes to your kids.

foxnews.com/us/nyc-drag-ma…

NEW: My 48-minute phone interview with an American patriot, born in Afghanistan, now a US citizen, whose family was abandoned during the disastrous US withdrawal.

We discuss Twitter's insane decisions - to shut down my Afghan Ally Rescue Campaign...

1/

2/

...which I created to help get his family and another to safety, and which is sponsored by the @AbramowitzFndtn...

...while at the same time, _Twitter is enabling the top leaders of the Taliban_.

It's all documented here in my new 12-minute video:

Wow, @HuffPost: A "deadly attack" in Israel, you say?

Who attacked whom?

Was this not clear in the "research" that your "journalist" performed, or the source story from a news bureau, such as the @AP, @Reuters or other?

Were the perpetrators:
* MAGA cap wearers?
* Amish?

1/ @HuffPost @AP @Reuters 2/

* Rotarians?
* White supremacists?
* Neo-Nazis?
* Zionists?
* Jews?

After all, you claim to have "rigorous editorial policies & standards...to ensure that we maintain the highest level of journalistic integrity."
politico.com/media/story/20…

So of course you know who did it:

Unbelievable.

Walt must be spinning in his grave that the company he built is morphing into this.

Bonus: See 2/ for the fruit of this fascist jihad, that has also engulfed our elementary "educational" system, to ram sexual indoctrination into our kids' heads, before they...

1/

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508926408332034049

2/

... even know what sex *is*, before they've reached pubescence, before they've even begun forming their own sexual identities.

Because just like communists, the indoctrination cannot begin early enough, to scramble otherwise normal kids' brains...

dailycaller.com/2022/03/29/tex…

Imagine the outrage that would (rightfully) erupt among the world's political & "news" establishments if Jews openly celebrated the slaughter of 11 Muslims.

Yet now, they're silent. While they insist they're absolutely, positively, not anti-Semitic.

1/

elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/03/massiv… 2/

Right, @abcnews @CBSNews @NBCNews @CNN @MSNBC @FoxNews @BBCWorld @SkyNews @NewsHour @NPR @nytimes @washingtonpost @AP @Reuters and of course, the @HuffPost sewer?

Psst: The great @elderofziyon did your work for you. All you have to do is have the guts to publish it.

Oh...

Mark today as the day that @Forbes officially died as a "news" organization.

It is now just another variant of cesspools known as @MSNBC, the @HuffPost sewer, and @TheView.

RIP Forbes. It was good while it lasted.

Excerpt follows.

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forbes.com/sites/maiahosk… 2/

<<" Will Smith and Chris Rock being Black or Will Smith “setting Black people back.” This is about a much larger systemic issue rooted in white supremacist culture designed to police the behavior of Blacks amongst the who’s who in Hollywood and beyond. Respectability...

This should be the #1 headline in responsible media.

As we are sleepwalked into JCPOA II, which builds on the lies, corruption and subversion of JCPOA I, peddled to us by, as Ben Rhodes put it, "reporters who... literally know nothing."

Oh, you...

1/

gatestoneinstitute.org/18375/us-irgc-… 2/

...don't recognize that name? You should. Everyone should. He was Saint Barack's personal Svengali, who built the "echo chamber" where they crafted the network of lies we were spoon-fed by those "reporters," as "news."

"They literally know nothing."

foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/28/a-s…

38 years ago, a commission appointed by Reagan to study the degradation of academic standards and performance of our elementary and high school system. An excerpt of the findings:

"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America...

1/

dailycaller.com/2022/03/29/tex… 2/

...the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."

Looking back now, that was a high water mark, a benevolent moment in which there were more red flares warning us than...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nation_…

Wow:

"Yes, some members of these ultra-nationalist groups have used Nazi insignia, made Hitler salutes, and used antisemitic rhetoric, but they are politically insignificant and in no way representative of Ukraine."
- @ADL, March 4, 2022

Bet my conservative friends would...

1/ @ADL 2/

...appreciate a dose of that contextual benevolence, after your last 5 years of you claiming that many of them, @CBP & @ICEgov officers, are akin to Nazis, even though even a causal analysis proves your claims are almost always insanely wrong.

web.archive.org/web/2022032501…

@ADL 1/ When I wrote this report, @ADL, it was propaganda like yours that I had in mind.

Don't miss the 4 sub-reports, at bottom, that answer the title question.

Your mandate has NOTHING to do w/the debate over "immigration." Instead, you act as a...

savethewest.com/caravans/ @ADL 2/ ...PR fig leaf for terrorists, terrorism-supporters, criminal gangs, including sex traffickers, and repeatedly-deported criminal aliens. Instead of reporting any of these threats at our border, you claim ALL foreign nationals on US soil are super-patriots, love America, and...

1) Paging the @HuffPost sewer (& @Buzzfeed):

Why did you change the title of this @AP-written piece, from...
"New players add volatility in Jerusalem tensions,"

to...
"Israeli Extremist Group Chants ‘Death To Arabs’ During Jerusalem Protests"?

There is a reason. See 2) 2) It's the same reason that for the past 15 years, @HuffPost refused to publish a single incident in which Islamists chant, "Death To Jews!" -- yet pluck this one incident, of Jews chanting it vs Muslims, & give it a blaring headline:

Because of your anti-Israel fanaticism.....

1/ Hey @hansvestberg @netflix: This is acceptable to you? This is "objective, nonpartisan 'news"? Really?

“If you’re looking for the usual flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric, don’t bother coming to @HuffPost."
- HuffPost

savethewest.com/huffposts-repe… 2/ “[At @HuffPost] there are guidelines that have to be followed — and they include a prohibition on conspiracy theories or inflammatory claims... angry minds that traffic in ‘heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy..."

savethewest.com/huffposts-repe…

I love the @FDRLST. But this is BS, and a false choice, between:
a) Refashioning the @GOP in the mold of Trump
b) Reverting back to pre-Trump RINO cowardice, and collusion, in America's suicidal march

One can fight for basic, rational principles... 1/

thefederalist.com/2021/01/26/how… ...without acting like a drunken buffoon at the end of the bar, vomiting up whatever comes to mind, but presenting 0 evidence to back it up, or argue on that basis, in a civil manner. And on that basis, to put your opponents on the moral defensive.

Ronald Reagan was a model. 2/

@naomirwolf @ggreenwald @ChrisLynnHedges 1/ Thanks for your response.

Prediction: You're about to run into the buzz-saw of a variant of "social justice warriors" (manufactured in our "schools") telling white people that:
a) Due to the color of their skin they're "racists"
b) If they reject this label, they're "deniers" @naomirwolf @ggreenwald @ChrisLynnHedges 2/ In your case, and @ggreenwald, I predict that our supposed moral & intellectual superiors will say something went wrong in your brains, that you're now **enablers** of the fascism that, they claim, @FoxNews is spreading.

While they go on leftist jihads against others...

1/ Read what this flaming nutball wrote, as the latest salvo in the #MSM's leftist jihad against @FoxNews.

Then, see 2/ -- and show me one example of anyplace that @FoxNews has ever done what the @HuffPost sewer does, on such a routine basis.

https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1353317764824489984

2/ I made this short video soon after the Scalise shootings in 2017, to expose how the @HuffPost sewer explicitly incites & justifies anti-Republican stalking, harassment, violence: .

*** Don't miss the 2:09 mark. ***

Nothing changed.

Cont'd in 3/.

RIP Dr. Williams. A short video on the actual effect and immorality of minimum wage laws. More in the reply comments.

From Dr. Thomas Sowell, Williams' best friend & fellow economist.

How many graduates of our most elite "educational" institutions know any of this?

After all, the "educated" class is now all but firmly in the Dem camp - as it wages this endless assault:

THREAD:

1/ I'd say, "UNBELIEVABLE," at seeing the @ADL sidling up to the violent leftist fascist anarchists who were captured on video attacking peaceful conservatives (& even their kids) in DC yesterday, but the ADL's corruption is so complete now, there is no bottom to it.

https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1328020131818184705

2/ Hey, @JGreenblattADL, are you REALLY unaware of the 100s of videos of violent leftist anarchists w/the #ANTIFA #BLM & Revolutionary Communist freak shows attacking peaceful conservatives yesterday in DC?

Or do you think your @ADL followers are stupid?

townhall.com/tipsheet/brons…

1/ If true, this should absolutely be part of our national discussion about this issue.

There's just one tiny problem, though.

If this were part of a broader effort by @NBCNews to do its supposed job - that is, to root out essential facts for the American people, this would...

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1321953046109315074

2/ ...have value.

Ultimately, however, this is part of @NBCNews's ongoing effort to downplay or ignore the Biden family corruption scandal.

How do we know this? Just do a search at its "news" site of the string: "Tony Bobulinski Hunter Biden."
archive.is/WHIGb:

Look:

1/ Paging the @ADL: Gee, where have we heard someone claim Jews belong to the "Synagogue of Satan."

Oh right... the most influential inciter of hate & violence against Jews, whom top members of the @TheDemocrats openly love on. While the ADL says nothing.

See 2/.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1321397398002786304

2/ Oh right: Louis Farrakhan, and his acolytes:

thejc.com/news/world/new…

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…

Paging the @HuffPost sewer: Are all your Internet connections down, again?

“The Huffington Post has in place rigorous editorial policies and standards...to ensure that we maintain the highest level of journalistic integrity."
- HuffPost editors' claim

savethewest.com/huffposts-repe… 1/ Paging @hansvestberg:

Much of America's TV news audience is tuned into @TuckerCarlson, listening as Tony Bobulinski is walking us, step by step, through the evidence of the Biden family corruption - including Joe's.

Your @HuffPost sewer has done worse than say nothing...