Ed Markey’s Totalitarian Mindset

Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has been pestering Elon Musk by demanding in multiple tweets that he reveal “what he plans to do” about “misinformation” on Twitter.  For centuries, normal human beings with any education at all have understood that “what we should do” about perceived misinformation is to respond to it with civilized discussion based on logic and facts, not heavy-handed censorship by totalitarian-minded Leftists like Ed Markey.  Coming from a U.S. senator, these communications are veiled threats that the government may have to step in, at Ed Markey’s direction, to censor and control Twitter.

For those of you who have not spent the past several decades in academe, as I have, what the cultural Marxist university administrators and faculty mean when they accuse someone of “misinformation” is that that person has challenged their socialist lies, propaganda lines, and misinformation.  That way they practice censorship while lying about it, saying they are only battling “misinformation.”  Or they call it “insensitive,” implying that it may offend one of the Left’s mascot groups (minorities, gays, transvestites, pedophiles, “transgendered,” etc.), or they call it “hate speech.”  By the way, hate speech is protected by the First Amendment.  This is always accompanied by a university administrator’s further lies about his supposed devotion to academic freedom and free speech.  Lies upon lies upon lies.

This practice started in academe, as I personally observed hundreds of times over the past couple of decades, and has now spread to most other major institutions.  It is fascism in drag and Ed Markey is its new poster boy — or should I say, poster queen.

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8:41 am on November 28, 2022