Thursday, December 27, 2018

Compulsion of Speech by Fringe Groups

The lefty culture warrior people frequently attempt to compel various types of speech, like using specific pronouns or other similar nonsense, or by pressuring feckless tech companies to censor or deplatform people. Meanwhile, right wing evangelical christian groups with an Israel fetish attempt to compel allegience to the state of Israel by government contractors and employees through oaths. These groups are small but vocal. Their battle is to control hot air, because they're too fringey to control anything else.

It's easy to imagine these battles over speech leading to political violence, because those groups are small and physically weak and because compulsion of speech is a fairly extreme violation of an individual. It's sort of a playground fight scenario.

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