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September 22, 2025 4 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seems conservatives are finally getting an at bat in the
era when if you disagree with somebody, we are left
with but one alternative, get them canceled or shoot them.
Had plenty of both in the last week or two.
Since Charlie Kirk, the passionate conservative debater, was murdered in
broad daylight by a brainwash to Jen Weyer in the

(00:20):
midst of a romantic relationship with a guy who was
making himself into a girl, the country has been taken names.
A few of Kirk's considerable population of detractors have managed
to restrain themselves on social media, sort of. They have
gleefully celebrated his demise in all manner of behavior, the
dancing of jigs, the in your face videos, promoting or

(00:43):
repromoting of outright falsehoods, made up things that Kirk did
not say, or in the extreme cases, blamed him for
getting himself killed. That left us wondering if you hadn't
been brazen enough to work in a New York high
rise on September eleventh to the thousand and one, you
might still be around today. The backlash has been quite familiar,

(01:05):
and in some cases the real haters have been fired
or deplatformed. It's not new. In fact, we're quite accustomed
to it. It happened just five years ago. Remember Black
Lives Matter, the murder of George Floyd. If you were
gutsy or crazy enough to say anything short of extreme
outrage or the condoning of the violence and destruction across

(01:29):
the country that followed, you were targeted by the political left.
Never mind any of the facts of the incident or Floyd.
This was a simple case of white cop murdering defenseless
black man, and finally it was on video. Gave rise
to a thankfully brief movement in this country, progressive relativism.

(01:49):
I e. Maybe you didn't kill Floyd, but somebody just
like you mistreated blacks decades even centuries ago, and you
get to pay for that by having your business burned down,
your police force defunded, or your neighborhood terrorized. Today, they
even went looking for people to punish. Remember Kyle Rittenhouse. Well,

(02:12):
after the last fires were put out and the last
shards of glass swept up, it spurned a new term,
cancel culture, disagree and you get erased. The power hungry
doubled down anybody who questioned the use of untested COVID
nineteen vaccines, Their government shepherds or the origin of the
pandemic were shouted down and shamed. If they didn't take

(02:35):
the jab, canceled, sometimes fired from their jobs. Five years later,
it's now clear the detractors were right. The left assaulted
the bedrock principle of American life, the unfettered right to
free speech. Well, now it's the right's turn with the
same vexing question. Do you have the right to be

(02:56):
offended if it means I don't have the right to
say something? Truth is our core values are at risk
if one group is deplatformed or silenced because their opinions
are simply unpopular. Such an idea may have applied to
conservatives five years ago, but today, everyday people are at
times concerned about what they say and post on social media.

(03:19):
Is it really happening? How many people are losing their
jobs having their businesses destroyed by the sword of their views.
Exact numbers are impossible to calculate, but social media has
created unimagined access to both public and private individuals. Today,
nobody can hide the average Joe, who really didn't do

(03:40):
anything more than voice and opinion is being not just
publicly shamed, but injured. It's the housewife who thoughtlessly posts
a crude video questioning sympathy for Charlie Kirk based on
some of his views, now the source of a public
boycott of her family's business. It's doubly frightening given how
relatively low social media participation really is. It sounds loud

(04:03):
because it gets amplified and then reverberated by the mainstream media.
While the country needs to brush up on the actual
definition of the First Amendment, we could also use a
crash course on just how powerful social media and what
we do with it can be. Think of it this way.
Your toddler is crawling around on the house toward a

(04:25):
loaded gun.
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