- 11 Jun 2018 18:59
#14923509
Since the 1960's the left has largely been anti-censorship. The left has fought to liberalize themselves from the "prude" restrictions of expression the social conservative right has tried to keep in place. The left has against the censorship of violence, profanity, and sexual expression in film/tv, comic books, music, video games etc. Meanwhile the social conservative have sought to limit those expressions as corrupting social forces, especially for youth.
Nowadays ironically it seems the left is increasingly in favour of censorship to further its politically correct agenda, to silence "cultural appropriation", to silence controversial right-wing speakers on campuses, to silence what it sees as sexism, racism, homophobia etc. in the media/workplace/school/political sphere etc.
As a flipside, the socially conservative right could be seen as being more pro-censorship in the past decades, while now it stands for free speech in light of the above.
To me, it seems the left or right are neither pro or anti-censorship, but will simply support whatever advances its own ideological agenda.
Nowadays ironically it seems the left is increasingly in favour of censorship to further its politically correct agenda, to silence "cultural appropriation", to silence controversial right-wing speakers on campuses, to silence what it sees as sexism, racism, homophobia etc. in the media/workplace/school/political sphere etc.
As a flipside, the socially conservative right could be seen as being more pro-censorship in the past decades, while now it stands for free speech in light of the above.
To me, it seems the left or right are neither pro or anti-censorship, but will simply support whatever advances its own ideological agenda.