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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What you are referring to is an interesting phenomenon.

Traditionally, freedom of speech has been a liberal value. Leftist orgs like the ACLU even fought for the rights of the KKK to march at one point, because this principle was more important than which side was doing the speech. Right leaning Christian groups were the main drivers of censorship for most of American history

Now the ACLU only promotes the DNC agenda, and the liberal politicians have done a 180 on speech, no longer supporting this principle. In fact the people we now see the most supporting free speech are conservative Republicans and Christians who have been censored by the liberals.

This isn't the first time in U.S. history that the parties have swapped some or all of their platforms. During the civil war, the southern democrats were the conservative party, and the northern republicans like Lincoln were actually the liberals.

You can't trust a political party, and should stick to your principles rather than engaging in party groupthink is the lesson I personally take from this, as parties are inclined to change their principles whenever it suits their interests of power.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Even in the Bush era leftist people were not actively canceling people out and actually tried to make websites work but under Obama it's almost like a new group took over that's more vicious and suddenly the right were no longer the Nazis.