Tucker Carlson: This is how freedom of expression (and free thought along with it) dies
Tucker Carlson: This is how freedom of expression (and free thought along with it) dies
Over the weekend, Americans gathered around the country in churches and synagogues to pray for the 11 innocent people who were killed in Pittsburgh on Saturday. They bowed their heads. They asked God to heal.
They thought a lot about how to unite the country, how to improve their situation, how to be kinder to the people around them.
That's the America you grew up in, a decent place full of decent people trying to do the right thing. But there is also another United States. It is the America of cable news and social networks, CNN and Twitter.
This is how freedom of expression dies, and free thought along with it.
In that America, political agents rushed to the scene of human tragedy in the hope of seizing it for political gain. They make quick judgments based on incomplete evidence to implicate their political opponents in crimes they did not commit. They use fear and anger to achieve what a reasoned argument could never achieve. They commit moral blackmail.
Typically, your goal is gun control. A crazy person committed an act of evil, therefore he must be disarmed. But this time that is not your goal. This time, his goal is broader than that. They want to take charge of what they are allowed to say and think.
How are you trying to do that? By blaming you and your opinions for the crime. For example, journalist Julia Ioffe made this comment after the alleged bomber was arrested last week:
"This man was ... the flames of his hatred were stoked by a president who was still talking about this caravan of refugees, as if they were terrorists or as if they were going to commit atrocious crimes in our country, and they are not."
So, did you get the message there? It was not subtle. The murderer was angry about illegal immigration. If you oppose illegal immigration, you look a lot like the murderer.
Even if you have never killed anyone, your opinions have inspired others to kill. You are involved in this atrocity. You are a monster, just like the lunatic in Pittsburgh.
You must change your beliefs. Otherwise, you will be punished.
This is how freedom of expression dies, and free thought along with it. The acceptable opinion range is reduced until it mimics the CNN script. In a short time, everyone agrees piously in unison. There is no disagreement.
There is only compliance. We all become obedient servants who sing the party line. - That is the goal.
After a century of defending freedom of expression, the left is now its enemy. Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center issued a list of demands for technology companies. Anyone who does not agree with the SPLC, they explained, should be prevented from operating a website or raising money online or organizing events or publicly expressing their opinions. That's an order, says the SPLC.
Well, it goes without saying that the Southern Poverty Law Center does not have a moral position to make any of those demands. None of the people who make demands do so. And yet, as always, the less virtuous are invariably the fairest.
This is how the former president of DNC, Howard Dean, explains that US policy is no longer really about politics, that is, about competing ideas of what might work and what does not work. Instead, politics is a spiritual battle between light and darkness, between God and Satan himself:
"Now it has become a fight for good against evil. And the president of the United States is evil. "
Wrong. Now, that is not the language of American civic life. It never has been. That is the language of holy war, evil. Well, evil people can not be reasoned. They should not be heard. They must be crushed and destroyed.
Did Howard Dean really mean that? Well, let's suppose, for the sake of this country, that he did not mean that, and that none of the other people who speak like Howard Dean at this time either do not want to say it.
We hope that all of them have lost their sense temporarily and, at some point, they will wake up feeling punished, ashamed and ready to rejoin the ongoing adult conversation. That is our hope.
Either way, we do not plan to stop talking, no matter what they say, no matter what they demand.
Every American has the absolute right to express their views, regardless of what Twitter thinks. It is our birthright. It is the most important freedom we have. We are not going to leave it in this program.
In our set, you are always free to say what you believe, even if we do not agree with you. Free expression does not cause extremism. Solve extremism.
Adapted from Tucker Carlson's monologue of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on October 29, 2018.
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