That’s the title of a piece in the Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/04/ben-carson-loves-hitler-references.html
Does anyone have a clue what he’s talking about? Is this a general swipe at left-wing political correctness? (It surely can’t be objecting to right-wing intrusiveness). But this seems like something other than a omplaint about PC.
Free speech has been under attack for years. Obama wants to make free speech a hate crime…you cannot tell the truth about anything now. For example, Dr. Carson speaking his mind about islam and sharia was immediately attacked as “hate speech”. Academia censures anyone who doesn’t toe the line.
Thanks for presenting the fantasy-world that goes on in Carson’s head. Enlightening.
Ask This guy.. He seems to agree with Carson.
You seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from criticism. You are free to say anything you want, but there are consequences. It’s called “accountability”; aren’t conservatives kind of big on that?
Where do you get *that *from? :dubious:
Oh, yeah, sorry - Cite?
Standard Republican “Every time I say something nasty about other people, someone gets upset! I have every right to say what I want FREE OF CONSEQUENCES and if anyone else says anything, they’re oppressing me!*”
Attacking speech with other speech is exactly what you’re supposed to do. It’s a feature, not a bug, when someone calls out someone else’s speech for being shitty. That’s how ideas get fair play in the public sector.
Trying to reduce criticism of leaders is the behavior of despots, not the behavior of free speech advocates.
Now, if I were looking for a Hitler analogue in the United States, I’d look for someone who warns us about a religious minority in our country who presents an insidious threat to our way of life and who suggests that members of that religious minority are unfit to hold positions of public power. But I’m having trouble thinking of anyone matching that description–a little help, Dr. Carson?
Damn straight. We should be defending free speech. We’ll just establish one set of things that are true. And we’ll make it illegal for anybody to question the things we say are true or criticize our truth. That way everybody’s freedom to speak will be protected.
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
Oh please. Obama is not trying to make free speech a hate crime. Carson speaking his tiny little mind about Islam was indeed hate speech and showed gross ignorance of the Constitution.
Carson is a mental midget, an idiot savant who happened to be good at neurosurgery before dropping his career to become a full-time whack-a-doodle. He’s in serious danger of making Trump seem benevolent.
We’ve already gone Godwin, and the primaries haven’t even started yet.
Just wake me up on the morning of Nov 9th 2016…
Carson being criticized is not the same thing as taking away his freedom of speech. No one is legally protected from criticism of they say something that others consider incorrect.
Also it is leftists who are behind trying to police language and make sure everyone says pc things. Some leftists I should day as most leftists, myself included, would fight against making it illegal to engage in unpopular speech. But my point is that Carson cannot even distinguish the left from the right. It is some leftists who are pushing for pc language, not proto fascists. That’d be like claiming Trump’s desire to build a wall with Mexico was proof of communism.
Carson proves that you can be really smart in some areas and really dumb in others.
I have no doubt that there are people who want to see a police state in America. Oh, it may seem to come from the left. It may seem to come from the right. But that’s mere salesmanship, a question of what gets the most people behind it. Where it would come from is the top. After all, they’re the only ones with the juice to make it happen.
Why? It all comes back to “income inequality”, or as I call it “wealth disparity”. It always gets addressed, one way or another. Either by confiscatory taxation or by revolution. The only method of preventing this is via the imposition of a police state so efficient that overthrow is impossible.
Anyone else think Ben Carson has pretty effectively killed the “It’s not brain surgery” idiom?
The world is rife with scientists who mistake their depth of knowledge for breadth of knowledge.
To torture another idiom, Carson’s knowledge is a mile deep and an inch wide.
The Nazis were pretty big on PC. “The Jews are parasites!” a brown shirt would say, but Hitler would swiftly correct him. “The Jewish people, my friend. Don’t dehumanize them.”
I’ve read enough far right sites to know libs will use minorities as their enforcers. And union members. Black panthers. Mexican cartels. That sorta thing. Probably because the idea of dorky white libs taking over the country is too far fetched even for them.
Plus, if you think about it, liberals do follow a lot of Nazi ideology. They’re big on traditional family values. Scapegoating minorities. Blaming the loss of wars on traitors. The Green Lantern theory of politics - will conquers all. Plus the endless corporatism. OK, so that last bit about right.
I don’t know if I’m being whooshed or you’re being sarcastic or if you’re trying to make a point, and if so, I have no idea what it is.
You know what, every month every liberal on earth has to attend a mandatory indoctrination meeting. I think this is common knowledge, but as I’m sure you know we are all required to sign a declaration of secrecy of what goes on in these meetings. Why are you blabbing about the plans on the internet? It is bad enough that the right wing blogosphere has uncovered our plans to hand the US over to the muslims, mexicans and chinese by breaking up the family unit and promoting labor and environmental laws until the US goes bankrupt.
TL;DR you signed a document like we all did not to disclose these things.