by Robert M. Traxler

“Author and neuroscientist Sam Harris raised eyebrows on Twitter Thursday over comments he made about Hunter Biden, saying that his alleged laptop controversy was less significant than the potential damage Donald Trump could do to “democracy.”

“Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared,” Harris told Trigger Pod hosts Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster in a video clip that has been viewed online more than 2.1 million times on Twitter.” 

Mr. Harris, or should I say Mx. (Progressive abbreviation for Mr.) Harris is a progressive icon, author, neuroscientist, self-appointed defender of intellectual freedom and podcaster. Left of center even for the progressive movement, he freely advocates the progressive movement’s need, indeed obligation, to censor all speech in the name of advancing free speech. Folks, you can’t make this stuff up.

Mr. Harris, an advocate for free speech, canceled his account on Twitter when it reinstated former President Donald Trump’s access. Got to love those socialist free speech icons; free speech means allowing only approved woke speech. The truly puzzling thing is that the intellectual elite, the social justice leaders, the influencers, the equity advocates, mostly favor censorship on a massive scale in the name of banning “hate speech.” The popular definition of hate speech is anything the socialist/progressive movement could in a prophylactic definition disagree with. 

Mr. Harris’ words are not found in the progressive media, as leftist wingnuts are rarely or ever quoted, only rightwing nuts are quoted, leaving most folks to feel the radicals are only on the right side of the political divide. Mr. Harris is an example of the media being one-sided and biased in canceling anyone not in keeping with the accepted narrative of the socialist movement. Disregarding the progressive wingnuts like Mr. Harris, an act of omission is as much censorship as an act of admission. The media ignore the radical progressives’ outlandish statements, while printing every inflammatory word spoken by right wingnuts. 

The media will print anything to do with right wing armed groups, but not groups like the John Brown Gun Club, an armed progressive group most Americans have never heard of. They were an integral part of the Autonomous Zone in Seattle after it was occupied by the socialist movement, who called themselves CHOP, CHAZ. The John Brown Gun Club carried the dreaded AR-15 with the evil 30 round magazines. Does anyone believe that an armed, organized right-of-center group occupying portions of a major American city would not be covered wall-to-wall in the media, and you would have heard of them hundreds of times as the mainstream media beat the drums of politically correct “news.” 

Mr. Harris is not important in his own right, but he is an example of the managed news we are subjected to in our media; even this esteemed newspaper canceled dissenting views. Part of the censorship of omission we find in the media writ large. Mr. Harris has millions of followers on social media, but he is hardly to be found in the mainstream media. Only radical right wingnuts need apply for derogatory news coverage; you never hear of the radical left wingnuts, as they distract from the approved media narrative. But right wingnuts (however few in number) reinforce the socialist approved narrative.

The riots during the Trump administration are called demonstrations; people murdered, buildings burned, cars burned, police officers attacked with firebombs, stores looted, and cities taken over by armed groups are mostly peaceful protesters. Really? Yes, just Google it, free speech is approved speech. As Mr. Harris has stated, to lie in defense of the movement is justified; he speaks for most of the progressive, socialist movement, but you will not find his words in the media. 

Where are the liberals of old who supported free speech? Deaf and dumb, intimidated, belittled and shouted down in the public square as purveyors of hate for allowing free speech. Most have surrendered to the woke, the influencers in social media and the mainstream news and echo the approved party line.

My opinion.