Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee
Got an email from Sojourners today. Raising money for the latest crusade, naturally. This one is about immigration, and the pitch is:
The SPLC is notorious for branding those who disagree with its leftist ideology “hate groups” (for example, the shooting at the Family Research Council offices in Washington was by a man who said he got the FRC off the SPLC list of “anti-gay hate groups”). Sojourners picks FAIR off the SPLC boogeyman list, brands them a “hate group” (no evidence needed–evidently if you get Sojourners emails, you just know it’s true), and then demands that one of the largest conveyors of Internet radio cover itself in shame, grovel before the hard left for its act of facilitating free speech, and then deny to FAIR the same privilege that Sojourners expects (and would scream to high heaven if it was denied).
Oh, and we must trample on the free market of ideas because–HORRORS!–“young people” might be exposed to notions that Sojourners doesn’t like.
Sojourners: taking its cue from Venezuela since well before Hugo Chavez became a dead parrot.
Sojourners wants to buy ads on Pandora to counter FAIR’s hateful rhetoric. Will you chip in $25 or more to help us with this project?OK, fine, they disagree with the Federation for American Immigration Reform on the issue. Run your ad, make your point, no problem. But that’s not enough for the Sojourners activists. They can’t abide the fact that someone disagrees with them, and actually has the temerity to state that viewpoint in public. Therefore, they must be silenced!
Millions of young people are hearing hateful, anti-immigrant messages on the radio right now.
We must stop this.
Pandora radio recently accepted advertisements from FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform), an anti-immigrant hate group as identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Pandora radio has 70 million users listening 1.31 billion hours each month. We need to send Pandora a message: publicly apologize for accepting hate ads, and promise to never accept money from nationally recognized hate groups ever again. [Emphasis in original.]
The SPLC is notorious for branding those who disagree with its leftist ideology “hate groups” (for example, the shooting at the Family Research Council offices in Washington was by a man who said he got the FRC off the SPLC list of “anti-gay hate groups”). Sojourners picks FAIR off the SPLC boogeyman list, brands them a “hate group” (no evidence needed–evidently if you get Sojourners emails, you just know it’s true), and then demands that one of the largest conveyors of Internet radio cover itself in shame, grovel before the hard left for its act of facilitating free speech, and then deny to FAIR the same privilege that Sojourners expects (and would scream to high heaven if it was denied).
Oh, and we must trample on the free market of ideas because–HORRORS!–“young people” might be exposed to notions that Sojourners doesn’t like.
Sojourners: taking its cue from Venezuela since well before Hugo Chavez became a dead parrot.
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