08-30-2020, 09:47 PM
(08-30-2020, 07:22 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: It seems that a police union and the governor of Texas are against free speech. A teacher gave an assignment to collect political cartoons on how blacks have been treated historically, and the results could easily be considered critical of their personal positions and actions. The result? Censorship.
I am surprised that criticism of pure plutocracy (which is about what the Texas GOP stands for) doesn't get a similar response.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.