concerning the Left’s embracing their censors when they hear speech they do not like; it is insufficient to debate those of us on the Right. Instead, they refuse to debate, thinking us beneath their dignity, but fully within their “dignity” to use any and all tactics to silence those that disagree with their politically correct nonsense speech:
On a recent episode of Headline News’s Dr. Drew on Call, transexual Inside Edition reporter Zoey Tur put his hand on commentator Ben Shapiro’s neck and threatened to send Ben home in an ambulance. This was in response to the fact that Ben called Tur “sir,” and thus refused to accept him as a woman. Rather than make his case in response, Tur bought into the logic of fascism. After that, as far as I’m concerned, his opinion doesn’t matter. His gender doesn’t matter. His feelings don’t matter. When you go to violence in response to words, by my lights, you become a fascist; you become a thug. Your moral legitimacy is gone, baby, gone.
How UNLADY-like was transgender Mr. Tur to have threatened Shapiro, a gay Jew, with physical violence for not using speech that Tur approved on. “Speak only what I allow you to say or I will HURT you!” Free speech is just that: I have the Right to say it but that does not mean you have to listen to it. The same applies to what you wish to be called; you can ask but you have no Right to demand it from others. However, the Left DEMANDS obedience and without it, demands retribution to cause real harm (physical as in this case, often financial and career threats as with Brendan Eich). Klavan continues:
