Is Free Speech Under Attack in this Country?

sturg33 said:
Well for starters thats a mischaracterization of reality.

1. I dont call everyone to the left of me a Marxist. I do think an extremely uncomfortable percentage of leftists are sympathetic to Marxism as an ideology. The majority of people on the left are more socialist, as well as a major part of the MAGA platform.

2. You dont here elected republican officials calling their counterparts Marxists on any regular basis the way you heard Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, AOC, and I promise I could go on and on. These are people in positions of authority who have a responsibility to at least try to live in reality, but they choose to peddle lies and fear mongering

3. Even if your point is correct (its not), the right doesnt respond with violence the way the left does. As I posted earlier, there is no fear of riots in the streets. Freedom minded people generally believe people can be what they want, thats their rights!

On the flip side, Marxists DO embrace violence as a political strategy. Because Marxism cannot tolerate dissenting viewpoints, therefore elimination is on the table. Its why hundreds of million people have been murdered, and if our academic institutions were worth a shit, Marxism would be so unpopular that the very idea of waiving that flag should get you ostracized the same way a nazi flag or white hood does today
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None of this is really debatable honestly.

I know people want to- but it isn’t
 
thethe said:
My response to education is privatize 100%.

Teachers get paid strictly based on student performance on some form of accepted standardized baseline. How that baseline is established is where the real meat of the issue is...
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I personally fear the societal repercussions of parents on both sides picking and choosing an education track that does nothing to challenge their pre-existing assumptions of the world and instead reinforce them uncritically, but I also hold a fundamentally different view of the liberties of minors. There are parental rights that I agree must be upheld, but I do worry about the harm that can be done to teens based on the views of their parents, be them leftists who might steer them toward gender ideology or conservatives who impose their religion upon them. I don’t have a solution to offer on this front, but these same people I mention as stuck in a dogmatic echo chamber on either side are raising these kids, and I personally question the morality of treating children as an extension of their parents.
 
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