Censorship by any method for any objective is still censorship!

Whether it is David Chappelle's Netflix special Sticks & Stones or Ricky Gervais' 2020 Golden Globe monologue, both are resonating among many reasonable thus moderate right/conservative as well left/liberal sympathizers. Not so much for content though that too in various degrees, but more so the presentation, the "fuck you, I don't care" posture respectively held by both comedians. Possibly, we are witnessing the horrid trend losing momentum to socially and journalistically "seek, censor and destroy" and worse, to conveniently silence for augmenting propaganda.

Why are these examples resonating? Largely it is due to the legitimate self-interest within us all; the prevailing, insatiable desire to speak freely, even when unknowingly contradicting that natural propensity by censoring others per some emotional principle, conjured morality or fabricated right. For censorship by any method for any objective is still inhumane censorship (yes, inhumane) with inevitable, detrimental consequences for first the censored then the censor.

Before those of the conservative persuasion gloat too much over the far-left implosion per this horrid trend, it was many among the far-right in the 1960s who favored censorship over alleged vulgarities by Lenny Bruce, Jim Morrison, and others, as well in the early/mid 2000s censorship of those critical of US warmongering. My point. The next time you are tempted to label and slander an opposing view as insensitive, hateful, misogynistic, fascistic, racist, socialistic, unpatriotic, Putin or Assad-sympathetic, and mindlessly so on, in order to merely shutdown the opinion and person, consider your self-interest, your own innate passion to speak freely.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.