Does the left hate free speech?

I say no and in response, I'm posting two videos on the subject by a transgender leftist Youtube comedian. It contains explicit material and says some mean things about the alt-right as well as a cutting take-down on the contradictions of classical liberals on this subject. Because you all agree with free speech, you'll watch the videos and address the points they raise, without resorting to insults or ad-hominems. Or not.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTDhutW_us&t=2s]

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBUuBd5VRbY]

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SW-User

Some anti-speech advocates are of the left. Some are of the right. We didn't expect it from the left, but there is an odd, quasi Maoist element to some of their rhetoric.

basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

@SW-User sadly, that is true. I'm am anarchist and maoists and tankies always show up in our groups and start crap.

SW-User

@basilfawlty89 Just looked up Tankie! When I see a kid wearing the Sickle and Hammer I ask then if they would wear a swastika.

basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

@SW-User tankies are annoying as hell. I can to an extent still respect Marxist Leninists if they own up to the crines of the USSR and not repeat them, but tankies are basically just authoritarians, only left wing.

SW-User

@basilfawlty89 I take issue with rationalizing the crimes of Lenin just because Stalin was worse.

SW-User

@basilfawlty89 And unions are authoritarian too.

basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

@SW-User I wholly agree. You won't see me defend Lenin. He, along with Trotsky and Stalin murdered the Makhnovists and the Kronstad workers.

basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

@SW-User depends on the union. The IWW isn't.

SW-User

@basilfawlty89 Some are better than others!

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@basilfawlty89 Speaking of:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwio5BeCPFI]

[quote]"I'm Tatiana Tankikova. I'm here to defend Stalin."[/quote]

😂

Unfortunately, there are still a few tankies on the left, though fortunately, their influence is now minimal.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@SW-User Basically 'tankie' is an insult term on the left:

[quote]The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported "sending the tanks in" in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism).[/quote]

SW-User

@Burnley123 It seems there will always be a certain percentage of people who support a horrible cause. That doesn't explain why 2/5 Americans support Trump, though. 2/5 Americans don't support American ideals...wow.