As Twitchy readers know, AOC recently spoke with Jen ‘Circle Back’ Psaki about using government regulation to stifle the speech of people like Tucker Carlson, who she claims clearly engages in ‘incitement of violence’.
What does this incitement to violence look like? Telling the public what liberals are doing. That’s it. That’s why she hates Tucker Carlson.
Unsurprisingly, AOC was quite pleased to hear that Tucker and Fox News were parting ways, and the congresswoman turned the camera on herself to spread her speech-squashing satisfaction on the perfect platform for such pronouncements: Chinese-owned TikTok.
She summarized her thoughts by saying ‘deplatforming works and it is important’.
.@AOC on @TuckerCarlson: “Deplatforming works and it is important.” pic.twitter.com/AZZj0wd3S9
— Donna, Independent 🌺🗽🇺🇸⏳ (@TruthFreedomPe1) April 25, 2023
That’s right, according to Authoritarian Ocasio-Cortez, it is important to silence dissenting opinions.
An entire generation of activist progressives have been raised to participate in our political system by declaring their opponents to be evil and then trying to silence them because they have declared them to be evil.
We’re left with young people who lack the intellect to defend their ideas, coupled with a moral conviction of their rightness that’s barely distinguishable from religion.
Yeah deplatforming does work in most cases (it won't in Carlson's case) but it is also the tool of people whose ideas either can't stand scrutiny or debate and/or those with totalitarian impulses https://t.co/H4F7f46FTK
— Kevin Boyd 🇺🇸 (@TheKevinBoyd) April 25, 2023
Exactly this. AOC is right that deplatforming works.
When you’ve trained your core supporters to oppose whomever you accuse of ‘hate’, but they have the intellectual depth of a Mojave mud puddle, exposure to other viewpoints cannot be tolerated.
Deplatforming does work – to keep people from thinking and changing their minds. Totalitarians understand this.
She's going to cheer deplatforming until it happens to someone she likes. Then it will be called violence. https://t.co/Gn8VKUMjdA
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) April 25, 2023
That’s how the game is played.
Deplatforming my opponents is ‘battling hate’.
Deplatforming me is an act of ‘hate’.
When you are unable to debate your viewpoints you resort to calls for censorship of your political opponents like AOC does here and most libs do because they don't have an ideology
Why can Jamaal Bowman debate Byron Donalds on Gun Reform but AOC can't debate MTG on Climate? https://t.co/g2vz94jqBA
— Edward (@OmegaJolteon) April 25, 2023
This guy gets it.
When you can't win the battle of ideas, deplatforming is your only option. https://t.co/DjCmofod7I
— Derek Anderson-Author (@derekbwriting) April 25, 2023
Thankfully, many people are paying attention.
AOC needs to be deplatformed!! https://t.co/USzdvu5eex
— The Red Phoenix Media Collective (RPMC) (@XZanadon) April 25, 2023
Yes, she does, and the mechanism the Constitution gives us to do that is voting.
Convincing people to vote how you want when ideas are exchanged freely is hard.
The easier, lazier, approach is to pretend your opponents are Nazis. Nobody should, of course, listen to Nazis … and that’s how we get the Bronx Censor Queen.
Wanna be dictator https://t.co/x5hv6dQ1FG
— GayPatriot Imprisoned (@GayPatriot) April 25, 2023
Sorry, AOC, if you stop everyone else from speaking, you’re a dictator.
Deplatforming is the tool of whiny losers who know they can't win debates in a marketplace of ideas. If he was really as awful as she claims, then he would've been gone a while ago.
I can't see Carlson being deplatformed for long.
— Corbin Spencer, online safety expert (@corbinspencer1) April 25, 2023
Yeah, we think AOC is being a bit naïve to believe Tucker’s exit from Fox News is tantamount to ‘deplatforming’. It’s more a matter of where he’ll be ‘platformed’ next, and his reach very well could be larger.
AOC, The Squad and the entire Democratic Party have successfully gotten their supporters to fully embrace Fascism while convincing them they're fighting against it.
— Karyn (@Sage501) April 25, 2023
They’re certainly embracing many of their tools.
Isn't censoring the same thing as "deplatforming"? So she's celebrating censorship… pic.twitter.com/sOSd2mrOQ1
— Gcwanini🖤🇱🇮🇮🇸 (@its_skoma) April 25, 2023
LOL. Well, yes, she is, but only for the people she has decreed are ‘bad’, so it’s okay.
We all know she wants to date him LoL
— Nunya Business (@RiderInBlack85) April 25, 2023
LOLOLOL! Nice.
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