Camille Paglia: Democrats Who Want The Fairness Doctrine Are Undermining The Liberal Movement
Because, apparently, that’s what the “free speech movement” at places like Berkeley was all about.
Which isn’t something I entirely buy into. A lot, if not most, of the 1960’s and 1970’s-era liberal activism was centered around socialist activists and apologists who certainly wanted free speech from themselves but wouldn’t have had much tolerance for dissenters had they ever actually risen to power. The Beatles themselves famously chastised these people in their song “Revolution” by saying that people who “go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao” weren’t going to “make it with anyone.”
It’s a bit sad when dried up old hippies, even through the perspective of time and age, can’t see that the ultimate outcome of all their agitating for a big government utopia in the free love age is the modern Democrat party with all its Nancy Pelosi’s and Harry Reid’s. Collectivism isn’t freedom.
But I digress.
Overall Paglia is spot-on. The Fairness Doctrine has nothing to do with free speech, and the advocates of it certainly aren’t serving the ideals of freedom or democracy.
