Will the Real Fascists Please Stand Up

2/11/23

There used to be a TV show called, “What’s My Line” where a celebrity panel would try to ferret out the person telling the truth about themselves. When the queries ended and the panel made their guesses, the person who was telling the truth was asked to please stand up. I felt like I was witnessing a current version of that program as I watched the House hearings on “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias“.

I was stunned to hear one witness, former Twitter employee lawyer Anika Collier Navaroli, say that more effort needs to occur to suppress hate speech and dis and mis information. This supposed educated person was actually advocating to subvert the first amendment and was doing it in the People’s house. Did she ever study the Constitution in law school? If so, how did she come to such an awkward position? While never proposing a solution to “hate speech” or dis and mis information, she was clear that January 6^th was a direct result of it. Even more alarming was how ranking Democrat Representative Rankin egged her on in total agreement. This, a person who took an oath to upholding the Constitution.

Rather than counter whatever kind of communication with which you disagree with reasoned response, increasingly ad hominem retorts are common. Without good retorts based on the merits of the argument, (the basis for all good debate), many are falling to the low use of name calling. That is, cut off any logical discussion of the topic and castigate the opposition into silence. As this approach has less and less effect in suppressing dissension, they now look for more tools behind which they can hide their ill-intentions. Mind you, they have a good part of those in power as part of this cabal so its not far fetched to imagine curtailment of speech through fines and imprisonment.

Whenever someone says you can’t say that, you have your fascist. They were on full display this week and they not only live among us, they sit in positions of power to make that statement stick. The real fascist stood up this week and its time to call them out.