More Tolerance from the Left

Just another blogger making the same leap as was demonstrated the other day in the Quote of the Day:

You get to a point, if you haven’t already, when you have to question the very value of free speech. Is it worth it to have racists marching around with torches and saying stupid, threatening shit? Is it worth it to have posters pasted up in colleges bemoaning the oppression of white men. “You’re not alone, white dudes!” I’ve always just assumed that free speech was a good thing. But I’ve started to myself ask why.

Is it a good thing to have unrestrained speech? Should speech be free? -snip-

You need to answer bullshit. You need to shout it down and say, that’s bullshit. You need to channel your Princess Nokia and throw lukewarm yellow soup on bullshit. You need to protest and call your community leaders and write letters and have difficult conversations with people in your life who talk bullshit.

The post was called “The First Amendment and Our Duty to Throw Soup.

There was an apparent racist event on a subway, which ended with thrown soup. Because that is exactly how you teach racists to act differently.  

Yes. Absolutely. Throwing yellow soup on people with whom you disagree is exactly the correct strategy. Because you don’t have fire hoses.

 

The people on the ground held unpopular, even heretical views. Birmingham, 1963.

Just in case I have not been clear, throwing soup, starting fires and shutting down speeches with violence (and threatened violence) is itself fascist. Racists are dumb, they are ironically “in the minority” and ineffective.  Oh, and violence, even soup tossing…is not the answer.