Is opposition to free speech becoming mainstream?

[Marokai Backbeat]

The battle for free speech has always been ongoing. The opponents change, the issues that are en vogue shift, but there is always a fight to be had to ensure speech is as free as possible. Moral panics in particular are scary things, as they tend to lead people to make decisions they wouldn't otherwise make if they thought them through properly.

The activist Left is sadly one of the more recent inclusions to the fight. It's one of the reasons I stopped calling myself Progressive and no longer like the term. It became clear to me over the last couple years that these types did not value the liberal values of free speech and expression as I believed they did.

It is ironic, isn't it. In an ends-justify-the-means pursuit of diversity, diversity of class and thought has gone by the wayside. Oh well. As dead0 said, these people only have real power in a niche. For now, at least.