I’ve never even visited, much less read anything, in the Establishment Republican NeverTrump website The Dispatch before, but much to my surprise I came across an article worth quoting. It’s on the subject of who or what is to blame for the shooting of Donald Trump July 13th in Pennsylvania. It begins with this thought: “‘If criticism is the moral equivalent of incitement, we have no free speech.’” It then goes on [Emphasis added.]:
“On the question of blame, many online pundits, and some elected Republicans, immediately blamed the left for calling Trump a threat to democracy…[including] J.D. Vance… ‘That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.’
Biden didn’t call for violence, but he did say Trump is a threat to democracy …If Biden’s words are to blame for the assassination attempt, then I welcome Vance’s recognition that Donald Trump is to blame for January 6 after all. Trump didn’t call for violence, but he did tell his followers that democracy was on the line.
You can see the clear problem, I hope. Blaming words for the violence that follows sets a bad precedent. This would become an all-encompassing tool of censorship. If any criticism is the moral equivalent of incitement, we have no free speech. We’re obligated to self-censor; we sacrifice speech to eliminate even the smallest possibility that violence might follow from the extremists and the unstable among us.”
Lefties are pros at calling us “haters” and “inciters” simply for noticing things. They pull threads we never, ever mean to pull. Like, for instance, any criticism of George Soros is instantly met with accusations of anti-Semitism. Noooo… we just notice he spends lots of money doing lots of things extremely destructive to civil society. That he happens to be nominally Jewish is of no import whatsoever. He could worship trees. He could believe the answers to life are found at the bottom of a tea cup. It doesn’t matter.
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