Sunday, September 29, 2019

Banned Books Week: a contrary opinion

It's not just Melissa Barnett who supports trashing texts which aren't in step with our braver new world. One PE Muscowitz has written a whole book on that topic. Which book he'd not like if an opponent trashed it, itself; but hey - he's one of the good guys.

Just ask him.

This isn't the first such brief I've seen around the place. The University of Chicago Law School wrote similar (pdf) in 2016. Vox Day has been asserting that sham that is Muh Free Speech for years. Even Ace over at Ace of Spades has observed that free speech, as the Constitution defines it, doesn't mean much when extraConstitutional monopolies and oligopolies sign on with the "no platform" agenda.

As far as Moscowitz is concerned, yeah - he's a liar and a hypocrite, in the service of evil. I expect he'd wear that label with pride, coming from the likes of me. I will simply observe that "corporate" does not mean "Right-wing", these days, if it ever did, which is why Jared Taylor's White Identity is no longer sold on Amazon, despite it being Right(ish). Moscowitz would applaud that decision; but it is of interest that Moscowitz still sees Amazon as "Right-wing" even after banning that book and thousands like it.

Which is not to say that such a critique cannot be made by (actual) honest men. Critics of "capitalism" are being shut out, along with critics of such corporations powerful enough to support capitalism for themselves and despotism for everyone else. Those latter critics, properly critics of fascism I might add, aren't faring much better.

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