SOME YEARS AGO I traded commodity futures with a buddy of mine, for our own accounts. Fast-speed high stakes gambling. We quickly learned that understanding market turning points is crucial. You can never accurately predict them—many traders have gone broke trying—but you can recognize them after they occur.
We had a free speech turning point over the last couple weeks, signified by two events:
1.) A panel of conservatives versus anti-speech totalitarians at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
See this.
Has the “Right” become cooler than the “Left”?
2.) Michael Bloomberg’s pro-free speech commencement address at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
See this.
Suppressing speech, whatever the justification, isn’t cool.
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(As a DIY zinester, I’ve fought for free speech, and against authoritarian elites, most of my life. Today the main threat to speech is coming from the so-called Left.)
