The Left is losing its war with reality
The Left is losing the big arguments. It’s got too loopy to defend the core beliefs of its identity with facts and reason, and we’re now getting too poor and divided to tolerate its nonsense.
Andrew Bolt
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You can tell the Left is losing its war with reality because it’s switched from screaming “free speech!” to shutting it down.
Last month Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi even got the Federal Court to damn One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for suggesting Faruqi, a serial complainer about our “racism”, should “piss of back to Pakistan”.
Or look at this past month. The Albanese Government has banned children under 16 from social media, tried to censor online “misinformation”, and banned a former Israeli Justice Minister from speaking here.
Meanwhile, Victoria’s Socialist Left Premier, Jacinta Allan, says she’ll toughen her already tyrannical “hate speech” laws to “keep us united against that American-style division”.
This war on words is almost literally that – a war. Protesters of the Left even protest in the streets against protests by Christians, Jews and women’s rights activists whose words they claim are “unsafe”.
How did Leftists become so hostile to free speech when not long ago many still demanded even the right to hang a photograph of a Christ on a cross, drowning in urine, in the National Gallery of Victoria?
Some will say it’s because the Left is now the natural home of the educated mediocrity, without the wit to win an argument, needing instead mob rule.
Then there’s the new tribalism, which has turned opinions into tribal markers which must never be conceded.
But most importantly, the Left is losing the big arguments. It’s got too loopy to defend the core beliefs of its identity with facts and reason, and we’re now getting too poor and divided to tolerate its nonsense.
Check the debates the Left is most likely now to shout down or censor – arguments that mass immigration is a danger, global warming is massively exaggerated, too many whites pretend to be black, Western civilisation is better for us than alternatives.
There’s also Islam, of course. Opposition leader Peter Dutton even faces legal action for suggesting that importing Palestinian Muslims from terrorist-run Gaza is a security risk, and Melbourne University academic Holly Lawford-Smith was subjected to harassment and investigations for insisting – duh! – a transgender woman still wasn’t a woman.
The Left is now losing such arguments. It can’t keep promoting nonsense without the public one day tiring of it.
How is today’s Leftist then to respond?
I know! A ban. Ban “hate speech” – speech you hate because you haven’t got a wise word in reply.
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