When the News Is ‘Hate Speech’

by Lee Duigon

May 11, 2023

Yesterday Facebook banned two of my blog posts, declaring them to be “hate speech.” I could’ve sworn they were news reports.

You can find them on my blog, posted yesterday, and decide for yourself. The two stories are:

*Oklahoma governor defunds Oklahoma PBS on the grounds that it indoctrinates and sexualizes children.

*Dept. of Homeland Security (we needed a FOIA lawsuit to find out about this) is recruiting people and training them to inform on their neighbors and anyone else whose political opinions might not match Big Brother’s.

According to Facebook, those two news reports are “hate speech” and must therefore be censored out of sight. No explanation is offered. They don’t have to explain themselves to uppity plebs like you and me.

For that matter, what the devil is “hate speech”? Bill Nye the BS Guy says anyone who doubts “Man-Made Climate Change” should be locked up in jail—that’s not “hate”? Any criticism of Transgender amounts to “genocide” and you’re all Nazis, blah-blah-blah—and that’s not “hate”? And SloJo Biden gets up in front of the camera and calls some 75 million of us (!) “fascists” and “a threat to democracy”—and that, too, is not “hate”? There must be something wrong with my dictionary.

How are we to discuss or debate public policy, as citizens of a republic are supposedly allowed to do, if the side opposed to The Regime is automatically tarred as “hate”? (And just for the record, I hate that! Make of it what you will, commissar.) I don’t like your stupid pronoun fetish—but I’m not allowed to say it in the social media? How is that in any way “social”? I’m convinced that if they ever found a way to get inside our heads and tear out all the thoughts that they don’t like, they’d do it in a New York minute. Oops. Have I slipped again?

Who ever thought we’d ever have a country where children’s TV programs feature drag queens and “celebrate” drugs and surgery that sterilize, lifelong, eight-year-old children, and government agencies that train us to spy on one another? We are right to hate such things. We are right to try to stop them. But Facebook says “Shut up!”

All King George III wanted was a stamp tax and a tea tax, and we took his American colonies away from him for that. Is that independent spirit dead? Are we so far removed from our country’s roots and heritage that we tacitly, tamely submit to being bullied by self-anointed censors?

God forbid.

I’ll have to see if my webmaster can move me to a social media platform that doesn’t censor us for our political opinions. It won’t be easy: viewpoint censorship is very much in style these days. Our current government is intolerant, imperious, and drunk with self-importance. Maybe Elon Musk can find a place for us on Twitter.

We’ve already lost big chunks of our freedom, and stand in clear and present danger of losing what’s left of it. The Romans lost their republic; and we could very well lose ours.

I have discussed these and other issues throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit, before they censor any more of my posts. My work can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

E-Mail Lee Duigon: leeduigon@verizon.net