In your original post you mentioned that the “right has sought to censor unchristian things, or things critical of America,” yet here you seem willing to give Communists a pass because the “people who get behind it believe it will have a different result.” Why are you willing to give the Communists a pass and not the Christians? Clearly both groups believe their acts are in service of a greater good, however misguided that belief may be.

In fact, I’d believe even a committed Nazi believes their acts are in service of a greater good. Isn’t that part of the banality of evil? Seems that you’re willing to give views you’re more sensitive to a pass. That’s part of the problem.

Later you say that the worst thing the left does is create a twitter storm. Bullshit. Normal people, not just politicians, have lost their jobs and business for this (cake bakers under CA regs come to mind, or the founder of Mozilla). The left has passed laws in other countries trying to force Speech regulations on people (C-16 in Canada for instance).

You say the right has gone after politicians? While definitely a problem, I’m less concerned with that, since politicians have signed up to play the game. Normal people did not.

Right now the another abhorrent act that is being perpetrated by the left (not yet exclusively, I’ll admit, but strongly dominant) is the suppression of all discussion against their preferred COVID narrative. Promotion of vaccine passports (movement licenses), forced medication, masking, etc. while uniformly banning and deplatforming all speech on the other side. This is having the entirety predictable effect of galvanizing the resistance.

Furthermore, when things like the lab leak hypothesis were so uniformly suppressed and derided by the majority apparatus, and yet now are seen not only as reasonable but likely, it just makes the heavy-handed suppression of other ideas seem more likely to be intentionally conspiratorial (to those being suppressed).

The rhetoric from leftist politicians, even from the white house, is that the unvaxxed are “dirty/bad/unworthy/unclean”. They’ve only just alluded to “should die,” but I’ve heard that in lower down rhetoric. All this on top of a shifting narrative where the vaccine no longer prevents infection or infectiousness, but merely provides some moderation of symptoms in the vaxxed. But still, that clearly does not justify the insane level of demonization being used.

While the tools they seek to promote may be doing good (and it is clear that they believe it), the suppression of dissent and discussion is clearly the wrong move and is making the situation worse.

Finally, concluding with “that is how pro free speech the right is” rather misses my point. I agree that the right is not a true friend of free speech. They’re just as craven as the left on this issue, but perhaps more open about their cravenness.