Time Columnist Denounces Free Speech as a White Man’s ‘Obsession’

1 May 2022

JONATHAN TURLEY — It has become depressingly common to read unrelenting attacks on free speech in the Washington Post and other newspapers. The anti-free speech movement has been embraced by Democratic leaders, including President Joe Biden, as well as academics who now claim “China was right” on censorship. However, a Time magazine column by national correspondent Charlotte Alter was still shocking in how mainstream anti-free speech views have become. Alter denounces free speech as basically a white man’s “obsession.”

What is most striking about the column is Alter’s apparent confusion over why anyone like Musk would even care about the free speech of others. She suggests that Musk is actually immoral for spending money to restore free speech rather than on social welfare or justice issues.

She suggests that supporting free speech is some disgusting extravagance like buying Fabergé eggs.

“Why does Musk care so much about this? Why would a guy who has pushed the boundaries of electric-vehicle manufacturing and plumbed the limits of commercial space flight care about who can say what on Twitter?” […]

1 Comment on Time Columnist Denounces Free Speech as a White Man’s ‘Obsession’

  1. Hmmmm
    https://time.com/2034/fa-la-la-lchaim-why-its-okay-for-jews-to-celebrate-christmas/
    Every year, just as I’m getting into the swing of my “fa-la-la-la-las,” and “rum-dum-dum-dums,” some spoilsport decides to remind me that I’m Jewish. Like I got hit on the head with a candy cane and didn’t know.
    https://archive.org/details/michaelcollinspiperthejudasgoatstheenemywithin_201910/page/n15/mode/2up
    Michael Collins Piper The Judas Goats The Enemy Within
    I recommend chapter 5 the great sedition Trial
    See how and how long the jews have been attacking free speech in
    Judeo Christian AmeriKa
    Whom celebrates the LIE in their religion…?

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