They Really Are That Bad
I had a conversation with an HVAC technician about our university system last week. This guy -- we'll call him Steve -- was happy to criticize and insult the state…
Free Speech Needs Nationalism
I was reading a book written by my great-great grandfather a few days ago. It described (among other things) the account of his journey from Scotland to India in the…
The Benevolence of the Censor
I think Tim Pool is beginning to get past the initial "hate speech is nonsense" reaction, and discovering the moral virtue of hatred. He is not the only one on the…
Defeating the Censors
Millennial Woes and Sargon of Akkad chat in their annual "Milleniyule" video. In my opinion, the most important part of the conversation happens at the very beginning: MW: Before we…
The Answer to Censorship of Hate-Speech (Regarding Sargon’s Departure from Patreon)
Sargon has now been banned from Patreon, for -- imagine my shock -- hate speech. What is curious is the precise sentence that the political activists at Patreon chose as…
The False Security of Moderation
I was just ran out of an establishment because of where I work. Chewed out, abused. But I guess that’s the norm now. -- Kat Timpf In the aftermath of…
The Fear of Knowledge
I was on Davis Aurini's Sunday Livestream a few days ago, and one of the many subjects we discussed was how, particularly in religious circles, the pursuit of purity can…
Culture vs. Law, or Why I Was Right About Trump
Back in January of 2016, I said that I would be voting for Trump for one reason, and that was for the preservation of the culture of free speech. To…
The Strong Case for Censorship
Here's a puzzle: what's wrong with Slavoj Zizek's argument for censorship? I like censorship, but what kind of censorship? Not ‘the office, you get imprisoned,’ but censorship which is a…