TJ Brown: 'Dear Regressives: Crackdown is Not an Effective Way to Deal With Dissent'

Source:FEE- talking about regressives.

“Over the last several years, the far cultural authoritarian left – termed today as the regressive left – has been launching a militaristic online campaign against free speech; one that aims to make the web into an ideological safe space. And, as with any war, whether physical or digital, the victim count is growing more and more each day.

Like most Millennials, I spent about 60% of the day yesterday scrolling through Twitter. Eventually, I saw it: Leslie Jones’ nudes as the number one trending topic in the United States.

Immediately, a single word popped into my head as I contemplated the motivations behind this act: Milo. For those who don’t know, in the month of July, conservative media personality Milo Yiannopoulos became the first person ever to be permanently banned from Twitter. Not “Your account is gone and you have to start all over” banned, but “You as an individual can never use this platform again” banned.

Milo has had run-ins with the Twitter police before, most notably when he had his verification badge removed after jokingly pretending to be a Buzzfeed employee. In this most recent event, Milo exchanged a single tweet with Leslie Jones as she was battling a wave of trolls online after her Ghostbusters release. Granted, his tweet was provoking and catty, per Milo’s reputation, but it was in compliance with Twitter’s terms of service.

But because Leslie continued feeding the trolls (never feed the trolls), she attracted even more harassment which caused even more of a scene for the website. This embarassed Twitter, and led to their need to make an example of this situation to prove to the world they were on the side of safe space advocates. So they banned Milo.

Deleted tweets & temporary suspensions are common, but never banning. It shocked Milo’s 300,000+ fans, including yours truly, that he was indefinitely evicted from his most domineering platform. It also made Milo into a martyr for the libertarian/conservative/classical liberal sphere of the internet. And as with any martyr, some supporters will seek revenge against their martyr’s antagonist. This would unfortunately become to be Leslie Jones.”

From FEE 

“Our investigation into the “regressive left” including the terms origins, its proper and improper uses, and failures by progressive to actually be progressive” 

Source:David Pakman Show- talking about regressives.

From the David Pakman Show 

David Pakman who I tend to respect, but is not someone I tend to agree with very often, makes the same mistake that a lot of leftists in America (closeted Socialists and collectivists) make about very important terms like Liberal and Progressive.

This is about regressives and regressivism (Far-Left and Far-Right) and it’s a mistake to throw these labels around like a couple kids throwing a football around and trying to make them look like they’re something that they’re not, especially just to make your side look better.

So I’m going to layout what these labels actually mean:

Liberal – someone who believes in liberty

Liberal Democrat – someone who believes in liberal democracy

Progressive – someone who believes in progress

Regressive – someone who believes in regressing

You can find the definitions for yourself online and they’ll match up with what I just laid out.

There’s nothing liberal or progressive about any type of fascism or authoritarianism, like political correctness or the nanny state. Someone who believes in free speech and personal freedom, is not a bigot or selfish, simply for believing in individual freedom.

If you don’t believe in free speech and personal freedom, you are not a Liberal or Progressive. You are a regressive (whatever your illiberal and regressive ideology) because you want to go backwards to a time when Americans didn’t have free speech and personal freedom.

Being a bigot, makes you a bigot. Being selfish, makes you selfish. Again whatever the illiberal or regressive ideology that you come from. 

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