Rodney Hide on free speech

Rodney Hide writes:

In the interests of justice, fairness, equity, kindness, etc., oppressors must be silenced. It is a time for victims to speak. That means the poor white truck driver must shut up. The Māori, female professor speaks. She Is the oppressed; he her oppressor. The individual circumstances don’t matter. Group identity determines everything. 

The oppressed get to speak their truth. This is important. Their truth is personal to them. It is true to them. It cannot be contested. To debate is to perpetuate oppression. 

We then have hate speech. Hate speech is what old white men say. Hate speech threatens the oppressed’s Health and Safety, and Safety always trumps freedom and so speech must be controlled either by the law or more efficiently by strict social norms. A career can be over in two minutes simply by stating what was an obvious truth just five years ago. 

There is also misinformation and disinformation. Those with the wrong ideas threaten Health and Safety. Wrong information is a contagion causing people to make wrong decisions or to think wrong and hurtful thoughts. Once again, speech must be controlled, especially in public forums. Indeed, public forums must be rigorously policed. 

This Left is awash with paradox and hypocrisy. The intellectual leaders are old white men. The cult leaders are white and privileged. But none of that matters. The anointed only need to announce an untruth for it to be acclaimed. 

The Left’s detachment from reality has made astonishing inroads to control political discourse, legacy media, social media (bar X), universities and schools, the bureaucracy and the courts. 

The takeover has been swift and total. The key has been the ruthless squashing of dissent.  Dissenters are publicly denounced and destroyed with their heads displayed on spikes. That could be you is the threat.  To speak out is to lose your job, your career, your business, your social standing. 

There are modern day Red Guards sprinkled through key institutions ready to pounce and denounce. That leaves the members of all our key institutions either brainwashed themselves or scared. 

Cancel culture is very real, and people are very scared.