Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death highlights hypocrisy of the left
However, the condemnation of the maximum political advantage attempts of Trump and his administration was perfectly right. Nevertheless, they came from the Iliberal left of American politics, and they were also deep hypocritical. After encouraging the cancellation culture for years, a little late to complain to the laws of the right -wing view as an excuse for the political censorship of the right -wing view when their ideological enemies do the same thing.
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One side of politics, when the authoritarian adopts an authoritarian mentality – even if the political “righteousness” is the soft cultural authoritarianism – the other side to do the same thing, to adopt their arguments, to imitate their techniques, to quote against him. Trump and his deputies are doing this now.
As a result, they were censored American liberals who made their freedom of speaking into a dirty word (s), where everyone refused to share their beliefs and the public sphere with different views from their heads. The authoritarians of the right, which is mobilized with quite different motives, are copying the game book written by the liberals with a revenge.
In Australia, unlike America, liberalism has not been mutated in an ideology of the political left. Our liberalism has the classical diversity inherited from the British political tradition represented by thinkers such as John Stuart Mill, such as John Stuart Mill, the most influential free speaking defender of the nineteenth century. When Robert Menzies based the Australian central-health party on the values of classical liberalism-our “liberal belief ında meant how to define it-for many differences, liberals and conservatives would be allies.
In the Topsy-Turvy world, which the liberals have long forgotten about freedom of liberals, which are not more important than the freedom of expression, those who claim to be conservative in the Topsy-Turvy world, have left the defense of conservatism in a radial and increasingly competent, defense of established institutions in favor of the population.
The events that follow the Kirk assassination-you will probably not be-an alarm bell for the left-wing liberals of America should play: if you sell the transition to free conversation-you should not be surprised if you collect your efficacy as they did years ago.
George Orwell would recognize the phenomenon. As the animal farm wrote in the last famous sentence: “Outside creatures looked again from pigs and people from pigs and pigs to people; but it was impossible to say which one was already.”
George Brandis is a former liberal party senator and chief prosecutor. He also served as the Australian Supreme Commissioner for England.
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