Many things to be offended by in here already..
First I take offense, that "liberals" are using the hate speech argument to censor opposition. Thats insane.
I dont know what image you have of "liberals" - but thats definitely wrong.
You have a new left wing congregation (millennials with a safe space complex - trying to safe everyone from themselves and their words) thats famous for currently doing that, but they also get ridiculed by everyone and their mother - and rightfully so (there is pushback).
The issue here was, that all YOUR privately sponsored top 10 universities, just saw "censorship of speech" as a new leftwing political movement, with professors being so afraid to be deplatformed and loosing their cushy jobs, that they didnt speak out against it, and in cases where they did -where punished by university leadership - because in turn, they now where afraid of missing a trend. This all ended with people shouting how very oppressed they were - then dont listening to counter arguments, but retreating in a neighboring room, where morals support animals where waiting for them. And I'm not even joking. Come to think of it, those where liberal arts colleges - but thats really not what liberals are all about. Please give them the benefit of the doubt on that.
Well, it's a little off topic, but our enemies who wish to see our country destroyed want to divide us.
Thats insanity as well, because your country does the best to destroy itself on its own, yet again.
Lets list it. You have -
- implemented extensive surveillance of the rest of the world
- managed to reach energy independence, and now want to bully people and sell them your fracking gas on top of it, and on top of still somewhat being the milletary protector state that you always were (in recent history)
- deconstructed your entire media system (NPR aside) to the point where the rest of the democraticed world laughs about your news neworks and rightly so
- brought the world facebook, the advertising agencyeveryone is now supposed to communicate over to get their social scores (instagram ftw.)
- your democrats successfully staged a coup and lost the election for it
- your political export on the left was the afformentioned social justice warriors. Your political export on the right was a populism revival.
- you decided to retreat from the world stage - discarding the imperialist model (the thing where you have your warships alongside every trade route in the world and have everyone pay for oil in them dollars), and become isolationist - but no worries, democrats would have done the same - just slower
- you elected to president, ...
- There was something about wall street and the world economy also - if only I could remember... Something about why millennials will never own a thing in their lives... Something about why europe decided to give out credit based on peoples life savings in banks, which got devalued alongside that (0% interest rates)
Oh, that and that your miletary leadership, never won a war in the last four centuries. Despite starting several. But lets not list that as a negative.
I'm sorry, but that - and complaining that your "outside enimies" want to destroy you - is too much for a gentile soul like me...
Oh, and did I mention that global power dynamics are shifting, already? (Chiiiiiina (spoken with the intonation of your president)) has mounted a 20 year plan (its somewhat public), investing 1000 billion USD into infrastructure projects around the world.
Hate speech isn't about exercising your own freedoms, it's about infringing on others' freedoms.
And thats entirely wrong as well. Free speech doesnt infringe on others free speech. The squads of police officers with miletary equipment (see, you fought all those wars, now you have this nifty equipment laying around - and gave that to your state police departments, because they asked for it - thats another consequence of having an industrial millitary complex that composes more than a third of your economy..
) do.
As do the "facebook style" chatmods, that are never seen participating in any discussion, but censor the heck out of every heated discussion - because - it became so heated.. And thats bad for the advertising business.
Ah - yes, and your "digital giants" are destroying the media systems in the rest of the world, while not paying taxes. Thats fun as well. But when europeans want to tax them the Donald back room staff is all like "tarifs then, tradewar!".
If it werent for hollywood, we would really have to stop loving you at some point, I tell you..