Now the left has taken THE EXACT SAME role, but with the opposing moral values.
This should teach you something. It was never about censorship being wrong, and moral grandstanding being hypocritical. It was ALWAYS about power. Leftists just wanted the cultural power that was at that point wielded by conservative, Christian, white people.
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syntaxaxe ago
True, to some extent.
But it is worth noting - there were plenty of normal people on the Left back then, for whom the issue really was about censorship. They're just on the Right, now.
calfahul ago
I wasn't alive or old enough at the time, but this basically describes me still. I was left of center for the longest time (I still am, arguably, it's tough to know what "right" and "left" even mean now), it's the left's turn to authoritarianism that pushed me away. "Anarchists" are now pushing for a world government with political homogeneity enforced through corporate censorship and surveillance, that's the point clown world has reached.
TheSeer ago
That is what is interesting. Those people, who protested against Christians, for wanting to censor subversive culture (MTV, violent films, gore in video games, vulgarity in The Simpsons) were just useful idiots as far as the left was concerned.