Against Free Speech

I was inspired to write this by my disagreement with CBD's recent post on Ace of Spades, "Free Speech Is Free Speech Is Free Speech: We Don't Get To Choose!"

I have come to agree with SJWs (on the left) and Vox Day (on the right) that free speech is a bullshit Fake Principle that no one actually believes in. It is not even asking the right question to ask whether we should have free speech protections or hate speech laws; the proper opposition is Christian blasphemy laws vs. hate speech laws, which is to say, Christian blasphemy laws vs. Social Justice blasphemy laws.

Of course, acolytes of Social Justice will claim that “hate speech” is different, that their creed is really an obvious and inarguable Truth, and so it’s objectively wrong to blaspheme against the doctrine of their (notionally secular) thought-control cult. Of course. That is only to be expected from such cultists, both from the lying indoctrinators and from their brainwashed victims.

And while Social Justice is just recently made-up bullshit like the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Christianity is one of the foundations of Western Civ in general and Americanism specifically. Christian blasphemy laws were once ubiquitous in the States; in fact, I’ve heard that many are still on the books, so an anti-blasphemy movement could get a jumpstart by simply enforcing them again.

And if the SocJus cultists want to pass their own blasphemy laws in their own states, well, that’s perfectly fine with me – mostly because I live in Oregon and it would be against our state constitution. But it would be perfectly fine for other states, since it would violate neither the written word nor the historical intent of the First Amendment; and I don’t really care what happens to states that are not mine.

Furthermore, I would gladly welcome the advent of an open and honest debate over whose creed should be protected from blasphemy and whose shouldn’t. It would be a vast improvement over the current situation, where they have managed to frame it as whether SocJus and Islam should be protected from blasphemy, or just SocJus, or nothing. That is some sneaky-ass bullshit: “Heads we win, tails we don’t lose.”

So let’s shine some light on the issue. That’s all I’m proposing; the contest is already there, but dishonest and rigged. So let’s make it open and fair.

And may the best faith win.