As reported by The Blaze on Sept. 23, You Tube streamer Steven Bonnell, whose online name is Destiny, is guilty of the very sort of repulsive rhetoric that I feel is worthy of censorship, in spite of my belief in Free Speech.
Originally a right-of-centre libertarian, Bonnell began to drift to the Left in 2012. Of conservative on-line commentators such as the wonderful Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, he recently said: “The entire world would be better off if these people were permanently removed from these platforms.” He is not, it seems, a fan of Free Speech, though he ironically deems himself a liberal! Not surprisingly, therefore, in typical “liberal” fashion, he said of Sunday’s tribute to Charlie Kirk: ” This Charlie Kirk memorial is indistinguishable from a Nazi rally and f–k anyone who wants to pretend it’s not.” While his subsequent mockery of Kirk’s widow Erika was truly disgusting, his suggestion that the murder of people such as Charlie might actually be beneficial in forcing conservatives to moderate their views, was, it seems to me, unequivocally criminal. To hell with the rational debates pursued by Kirk! Let’s just kill our opponents.
That Bonnell still has a presence on X is just another example of the sickness of the contemporary Western World, a world whose Establishment [ i.e., The Swamp ] is dominated by the assumption that Leftist values are unequivocally worth defending, an assumption that seems to have led many on the Left to be comfortable with the obliteration of their conservative opponents. Bonnell’s suggestion that Charlie Kirk’s murder might actually yield positive results, is an implicit endorsement of murder itself. That he still has a presence on line is just another example of the appalling double standard that has made rational debate almost impossible here in the “progressive” West.