UK Academics Advocate Silencing Dissent on Climate Change and Covid-19
This is the same technique used against the physicians in DC who held a press conference and had their videos banned by YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Instead of allowing robust debate, the progressives cannot debate, so they shut down anyone who says anything they even mildly dislike. The problem is that the vast majority of people disagree with the progressives on most issues in some form. The progressives cannot stand disagreement, which means they eventually need to shut down everyone's speech. This is why at the university's, we see such a strong push for limiting speech for non-progressive speakers. The progressives live in fear that if anyone hears robust debate, they will soon walk away from the inane platitudes the progressives call truth. The other favorite tactic of the progressives is the old bait and switch. They dislike the ideas a person has but never engage those ideas; instead, they call the other person names or argue unrelated ad hominem facts. The idea here is not to engage the argument on the merits but to call the person terrible and unworthy of your time. I hear this in virtually every YouTube video from the riots. A BLM cultist will talk to someone with a video camera, and usually, a mid 20 something harridan will rush over and claim the videographer is some variant of Hitler, Satan, or Trump, all the same thing to them. Years ago, Breitbart came out to a protest and engaged the protesters by asking them to explain the signs they were holding. None of the people could explain the meaning behind the signs. These usually called Breitbart a name, sexist, racist, homophobe, and he was asking for examples. A woman quickly ran over with a megaphone and began shouting that Breitbart was gay. That stunned me. But she kept yelling that he was a gay and the people should move away from him. The harridans realize that if the people at the protests understood the facts, they would be on the other side, so they must keep them in the dark on the arguments, and they are willing to do anything to achieve this goal. I received an email today from a progressive attaching an article that the physicians in the DC event who were video banned believe some wild ideas. I don't care about their beliefs, or their hairstyle, or even whether or not they drive a 1978 AMC Pacer, lime green of course. I care about whether or not the progressives can debate the ideas these physicians have put forward. Video banning strongly suggests they cannot. The argument by the progressive about unrelated ad hominem issues also strongly suggest they cannot. This does not mean that I have to believe the physicians. I am too skeptical for that. But it is another mark against me ever wasting my time listening to the progressives. The recent Barr hearings nailed that point home good and hard. The Democrats have nothing to say, and they are terrified of Barr or others like him. So, they attempt to discredit him by slander and lies pretending they are questions but never allowing Barr to respond. The progressive left is out of ideas. It is an unraveling cult, and the old political hacks on the Democratic side in Congress know it.
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