{"id":1449537,"date":"2022-04-22T07:07:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449537"},"modified":"2022-04-22T07:07:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:07:55","slug":"john-hawkins-5-reasons-woke-liberals-are-so-opposed-to-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-hawkins-5-reasons-woke-liberals-are-so-opposed-to-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hawkins: 5 Reasons Woke Liberals Are So Opposed to Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-hawkins-5-reasons-woke-liberals-are-so-opposed-to-free-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449537&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It\u2019s worth noting that woke liberals like to claim \u201cboth sides\u201d have a free speech problem because conservatives don\u2019t believe woke teachers should be able to insert porn, gender-bending, and teaching kids to hate white people into high school math class. However, controlling what teachers are allowed to pump into the brains of impressionable children isn\u2019t a free speech issue at all. Teachers are paid to do a job and that job doesn\u2019t include preaching weird propaganda to kids in public schools instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Our education system is supposed to be politically neutral and healthy for kids. Demanding that teachers do their damn jobs instead of trying to groom children doesn\u2019t impinge on their free speech. If a teacher can\u2019t break open the Bible and teach kids Christianity during school, teachers shouldn\u2019t be able to lie to kids and tell them that they can pick their gender. We don\u2019t allow cops to make political decisions about who they pull over and Republican firemen aren\u2019t allowed to decide to just let liberal houses burn down, so why should liberal teachers be allowed to push their beliefs on children who were sent there by their parents to be educated, not brainwashed?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, woke liberals really have become increasingly hostile to free speech. On college campuses, they go to lectures in order to shout the speakers down. They try to destroy people via cancel culture for having run-of-the-mill opinions they disagree with. Most importantly, the woke liberals\u2019 social media monopolies that control so much of our discourse, censor and penalize people for having even mainstream opinions that clash with liberal beliefs. Take it from someone who was suspended for 30 days for posting this \u201ccommunity standards violation\u201d on Facebook. This is a real phenomenon:<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40c21c2d-9fc9-4ebe-af13-7235370f07e2_512x164.png\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img src width=\"512\" height=\"164\" data-attrs=\"{\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The jury may have later agreed with me, but Facebook still considered having this opinion to be an unforgivable sin. Of course, Facebook\u2019s hatred of free speech is right out of the mainstream liberal playbook. In fact, Democrats in Congress are urging social media to be <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/technology\/596913-tech-trojan-horse-how-the-senate-is-poised-to-codify-censorship-of-social\/\" rel=\"\">bigger censors<\/a>. This is often couched as \u201cfighting misinformation,\u201d but \u201cmisinformation\u201d increasingly seems to be defined as stories that are inconvenient for liberals. For example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/18\/gop-fury-at-big-tech-after-nyt-admits-hunter-biden-laptop-is-real\/\" rel=\"\">Hunter Biden laptop story<\/a> was labeled as \u201cmisinformation,\u201d but calling biological men \u201cwomen, \u201cclaiming that Russia tilted the 2016 election to Trump isn\u2019t or saying that America is a white supremacist nation isn\u2019t. Unquestionably, to any objective observer, the biggest sources of \u201cfake news\u201d in America are mainstream liberal outlets that somehow never seem to have to measure up to the high standards the Left claims conservative outlets don\u2019t meet.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike conservatives, it\u2019s woke liberals who want strict control of what ideas you\u2019re allowed to see, hear, and even think. So, WHY are liberals like this? Here are the 5 reasons that explain it. The first two deal with power and the last three, which are closely related, deal with the nature of liberalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Preventing challenges to their power:<\/strong> Why do totalitarian nations like China, Russia, and North Korea hate free speech? Because the people in power recognize that one of the keys to remaining in power is to stop the people from openly discussing their flaws or freely organizing against them. Liberals aren\u2019t allowed to go that far\u2026 yet\u2026 but, if they can create a world where real conservative viewpoints are buried while liberal viewpoints thrive, it makes it difficult to challenge them in their centers of power like Hollywood and colleges. This is the real reason liberals hate <em>Fox News<\/em> so much\u2026 because it allows the public to hear the other side instead of just showing them a demonized version of the Right as seen through liberal eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Steering the Overton Window their way:<\/strong> When a liberal tells you that \u201ceveryone agrees\u201d with some Left-wing idea, it\u2019s almost inevitably because they\u2019ve ignored or censored everyone that disagrees. In reality, there is no \u201cscientific consensus\u201d about global warming, agreement that people can decide to change sexes, or widespread belief that we should open up the borders or increase immigration. As someone who has worked with a number of conservative websites, I can tell you that almost all conservative media outlets self-censor the articles they write purely out of fear that they\u2019ll be penalized and ultimately banned by Facebook if they say what they really think. By giving extra weight to liberal outlets and penalizing conservative outlets, Google feeds voters that search for information about candidates and positions an inordinate amount of positive news about liberals and negative news about conservatives. The algorithms on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube do the same thing. If the Left can control what the public is allowed to see and not see, they can always have the field tilted in their favor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Liberalism has become something closer to a religion than an ideology:<\/strong> Ultimately, modern liberalism is not really an ideology, it\u2019s more of a religion substitute that takes precedence over everything else for its true believers, including real religions. Additionally, as you\u2019d expect with a religion, liberal ideas are spread by faith, not logic. It has been forever remarked upon that liberals have bad ideas, but that\u2019s because their ideas are not judged by whether they work. On the contrary, liberal ideas are judged by whether they make liberals feel good about themselves or not. One of the things that makes liberals feel good is being in tune with fellow members of their religion. Along those same lines, this helps explain the Left\u2019s explosive reaction to heretics that don\u2019t conform to their doctrine. This is nothing unusual for religions. You can look back to the Spanish Inquisition or much more recently, Muslims who are willing to murder non-Muslims who don\u2019t respect their religion\u2019s prohibition of putting up images of Muhammad. Liberals are taking pages out of those same playbooks, even if they aren\u2019t legally allowed to go as far\u2026.yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Liberal ideas are not spread on their merits. They\u2019re done by splitting people into groups and defining them:<\/strong> Liberals seldom even bother to make any kind of logical case for what they believe. Instead, it\u2019s all emotional appeals and calling everyone who disagrees with them a racist. In essence, liberalism is spread by saying, \u201cAll the good people agree with us and everyone who disagrees with us is a bad person. Which are you?\u201d This is why free speech is destined to work against them. If people actually get to hear the other side, it gives people the opportunity to see that most conservatives are good and decent people with well-thought-out positions that make a lot more sense than the ones liberals are pushing. It\u2019s never the people with good ideas that are scared of free speech.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) They feel no obligation to create an even playing field with evil people:<\/strong> The late Charles Krauthammer once famously said:<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5555007b-3ed3-401b-9b32-7d96a1e409cc_850x400.jpeg\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img src width=\"850\" height=\"400\" data-attrs=\"{\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Woke liberals label conservatives as racists, bigots, white supremacists, selfish, greedy, evil, intolerant, uncompassionate, fascists and Nazis, and therefore, they believe there\u2019s no need to let us have our say because we have nothing to offer but EEEEVVVILLLLL. Of course, if conservative arguments were really made in bad faith because we\u2019re bad people, they should be easy to disprove. The fact that liberals can\u2019t do this and for the most part, don\u2019t even try, should tell you something. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, liberals would say that they don\u2019t need to disprove them. When the United States was at war with Hitler, Gaddafi, or Saddam Hussein, we certainly didn\u2019t go out of our way to make sure that everyone understood their side of things. How many people care what Putin\u2019s motives are for invading Ukraine? Are we all concerned about listening to a pedophile or rapist\u2019s side of the story after they\u2019re convicted? No. Woke liberals have just taken that same way of looking at things and have applied it to half the country (at least). Do you disagree with them? You do? Then you\u2019re \u201cevil,\u201d so who cares if you get free speech or not? 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