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Why Is the Left So Afraid of Free Speech

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Another conservative attempting to engage in Free Speech on a college campus confronts a leftist mob who not only don’t want to hear what he has to say, but seeks to deny others the opportunity to hear him.

Students who wanted to hear Shapiro speak had to be ushered quietly into the lecture hall through a back door while unhinged student activists and faculty members screamed and tried to force their way through a police barricade protecting the front door.

As we reported earlier, the University tried to cancel/postpone the speech until they could assemble a left-wing panel to provide “balance;” something that is never done when left-wingers

ABC News in Los Angeles reported:

Shapiro arrived at CSULA and was speaking to the campus chapter of Young America’s Foundation on the topic of “When Diversity Becomes a Problem” when a fire alarm was pulled.

While the siren was sounding, Shapiro continued his speech, stating he would not be silenced.

“If this sort of thing happened during classes at this university, the kid who pulled the fire alarm would be off this campus so fast it would make your head spin,” Shapiro said. “But not you out there, the protesters, the special magical leftist children protected from the consequences of living in the real world with my taxpayer dollars. You get to shut us down for disagreeing with your thug tactics and your nasty, pathetic, evil ideology.”

According to tweets by Shapiro, protesters blocked entrances to the University-Student Union where he was speaking, attempting to obstruct those who wished to attend. Cameras captured shouting and pushing as intense interactions occurred between protesters and those attempting to attend the event.

After speaking for about an hour, Shapiro tweeted he had to be escorted by police from the campus for safety concerns.

The leftist mob chanting “This is what democracy looks like” were quite accurate. Under a democracy, there are no individual liberties; only what the mob will permit.
Why is the left so terrified of conservative speech?
It couldn’t possibly because the leftist agenda relies on fairy-tale narratives that fall apart under the slightest level of scrutiny or examination. Could it?

Comments

  1. Because the Left can’t win an argument if the opposing side is allowed to debate with facts, reason, and OMG truth. The left knows what is “right” no matter how much it is BS with no facts to support it. So the left has to resort to shutting others up by any means possible (screaming over them, denying them the opportunity to speak, by verbal threats, by physical threats, or using unethical CEOs (Twitter) or the Govt to silence people).

    I would hate to be such an utter douche bag as those cry bully progressives but they seem to think they are winning by being a-holes and that it makes them hip and cool (bllecchh).

  2. It’s because of two things, one being scrutiny (as stated by the author) of the Left’s ideology of fiction & experimentation. The other being the delusion of the Left that only they represent goodness/fairness therefore, that it’s okay to shut everything else down using tactics which might include violence. Never underestimate the Left’s desperation. There is, of course, the overall knowledge of the natural state of America’s stable conservatism, which was once considered suffocating, but no longer. From the 60’s until now, the Left has swung from supporting freedom from large government (“the Man”) to supporting large government & non-individualism. The Right has remained stable in its ideology. Pointing these things out to a Leftist is a waste of time, however.

  6. I’ll offer an even simpler solution, frankly. For a long time we’ve gone with the narrative that liberals aren’t bad people, they just have bad ideas given to them by bad leaders. Mean-spirited as it may sound, I think we honestly need to consider that the people who make up the hard-left might actually just be awful people.

  7. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to say what people do not want to hear.” -George Orwell

    “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing freedom of speech.” -Benjamin Franklin

  8. I amused myself yesterday posting facts on Huff Po racists voices’ celebrations of trayvon Martin’s failed attempted murder. I was polite and civil calling out lies and distortions of both people.

    Then I used Facebook’s own standards to get posts scrubbed and the haters warned/banned. Using their own “rules” against them.

    Only way to fight them.

  9. Peggy Noonan nailed it as only she can when she is focused. This long except from her recent column may not seem to be about free speech, but it actually is:

    We’re in a funny moment. Those who do politics for a living, some of them quite brilliant, are struggling to comprehend the central fact (of the) Republican primary race, while regular people have already absorbed what has happened and is happening.

    (….)

    There are the protected and the unprotected. The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it. The unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully.

    The protected are the accomplished, the secure, the successful—those who have power or access to it. They are protected from much of the roughness of the world. More to the point, they are protected from the world they have created. Again, they make public policy and have for some time.

    I want to call them the elite to load the rhetorical dice, but let’s stick with the protected.

    They are figures in government, politics and media. They live in nice neighborhoods, safe ones. Their families function, their kids go to good schools, they’ve got some money. All of these things tend to isolate them, or provide buffers. Some of them—in Washington it is important officials in the executive branch or on the Hill; in Brussels, significant figures in the European Union—literally have their own security details.

    Because they are protected they feel they can do pretty much anything, impose any reality. They’re insulated from many of the effects of their own decisions.

    One issue obviously roiling the U.S. and western Europe is immigration. It is THE issue of the moment, a real and concrete one but also a symbolic one: It stands for all the distance between governments and their citizens.

    It is of course the issue that made Donald Trump.

    Britain will probably leave the European Union over it. In truth immigration is one front in that battle, but it is the most salient because of the European refugee crisis and the failure of the protected class to address it realistically and in a way that offers safety to the unprotected.

    If you are an unprotected American—one with limited resources and negligible access to power—you have absorbed some lessons from the past 20 years’ experience of illegal immigration. You know the Democrats won’t protect you and the Republicans won’t help you. Both parties refused to control the border. The Republicans were afraid of being called illiberal, racist, of losing a demographic for a generation. The Democrats wanted to keep the issue alive to use it as a wedge against the Republicans and to establish themselves as owners of the Hispanic vote.

    Many Americans suffered from illegal immigration—its impact on labor markets, financial costs, crime, the sense that the rule of law was collapsing. But the protected did fine—more workers at lower wages. No effect of illegal immigration was likely to hurt them personally.

    It was good for the protected. But the unprotected watched and saw. They realized the protected were not looking out for them, and they inferred that they were not looking out for the country, either.

    The unprotected came to think they owed the establishment—another word for the protected—nothing, no particular loyalty, no old allegiance.

    Mr. Trump came from that.

    This business of “thought control” through manipulation of what you are free to say only by agreeing with the political correctness police has not gone down well well with the average “useful idiot” who is not eager to be a member of the useful idiot underclass.

    I got a great chuckle from a “tweet” by Christina H. Sommers:

    “Want to close wage gap? Step one: Change your major from feminist dance therapy to electrical engineering. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay”

    Colleges seems to be hellbent on nursing any little pimple of an “offense” which appears to go against the Progressive agenda.

    Therefore, “feminist dance therapy” wins out because it is part of the great cultural purge of the “impure” thinking which must be stomped out in order to reach the ideological purity that undergirds the glorious revolution of Progressivism.

    It is Noonan’s “protected class” which is weaving the narrative. Their gated community lives do not want to mix with the hoi polloi on any terms which they do not control.

    But now, much to their shock and awe, a vox populi is rising against the establishment and it scares the living bejesus out of the protected class. For them, it is Donald Trump who must be silenced. He is reckless. His brashness might throw the whole protected class in with the common trash. Think of it. Hillary and Bernie and lapdogs among the Repugnants are part of the passing scene for the establishment. Trump doesn’t play by any of the rules. If you look through the establishment looking glass, Trump is narcissistic. He is a bully. He is brash. He is a boor. He is histrionic. He is asocial. He lacks remorse. He is self-absorbed. He is shameless. He is self-serving. He plays by a different set of rules.[Note: does this remind you of Obama?]

    Yeah, maybe so, but the “unprotected class” hears him and they smell an entirely different rose. So, maybe Trump is responding to the psychological state of his supporters. So, maybe a huge chunk of the population is nuts in the eyes of the establishment. Maybe the establishment knows it is losing its control of the little people. Maybe the welfare and the speech codes and the whole manipulation of the culture has suffered a transmission breakdown. Maybe the emperor establishment has no clothes and they have no place to hide. Maybe this is how actual revolutions begin.

  11. The Left is not afraid of free speech. They just want to to [sic] STFU if you disagree with them.

    Comment by Professor Hale — February 26, 2016 @ 12:49 pm – February 26, 2016

    This is true. In the story about the lecture for the late newscast on Thursday, KABC-TV reporter Leanne Suter interviewed several participants in the protest. A college-aged (presumably a CSULA student) Rubenesque chick declared “We’re not against free speech; not at all. We’re against hate speech!”. Yet, I’m willing to bet she couldn’t give a standard, objective definition of what constituted “hate speech” in the first place.

  12. I’m sure that student could not come up with any objective definition of “hate speech.” It’s like obscenity or pornography: “I know it when I see it.”

    But then, Progs don’t want an objective standard. They want the term to mean whatever they need it to mean at the moment.

    Generally, “free speech” means the PC party line, and “hate speech” means any dissent.