An entire generation and political movement trained to believe their only option when hearing things they disagree with is to crawl to Google or college administrations or HR executives and beg to have it silenced so they don't have to confront it. Only disease can come from that

Over the last 5 years, the most disinformation, lies and demented conspiracy theories -- and the most damage done -- have emanated from the corporate media outlets that sermonize most. And they're the most sinister, because they want to censor speech so only their lies are heard.

This is not hyperbole: in the liberal sector of the corporate media -- by far the largest and most dominant wing -- lying and disinformation are not prohibited or even frowned up. It's encouraged and rewarded, as long as it's directed at the ideological enemies of their audience.

I really wish people would read the Supreme Court's McCarthy era cases. The Court demanded answers from Congress on why they had the right to investigate private citizens' Communist associations & plots given *only* DOJ has the power to investigate crimes. Congress' reply, 1957:

Very good @zeynep  NYT op-ed on who is actually vaccine-hesitant and why. Over and over, corporate media churns out totally false narratives to flatter the political views of their audience: it's primarily MAGA who are vaccine-hesitant. The truth:

Democrats: overwhelmingly support internet censorship by both tech monopolies *and* the state, and reveres both FBI and CIA. Republicans: overwhelmingly supports an internet free of government and corporate control, and views FBI and CIA as pernicious. What happened to you??

Freddie deBoer wrote a brilliant essay on how national liberal digital outlets are failing because they are dominated by a single narrow ideology, where no dissent is allowed & in-group herd behavior prevails. The exact outlets he described united in this thread to denounce him:

In case you haven't read it, here's the full deBoer essay where he so insightfully and compellingly describes the prevailing cultural rot in these collapsing liberal digital outlets, and why their employees are understandably filled with rage and envy:

LOL. One of the first jokes Chappelle told was about Jews -- analogizing them to an alien race who abandon their planet and then come back to claim it as their own -- a joke almost no other comedian would have dared utter. He's told jokes about virtually every group over years.