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May 19, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
06:30
Does Elon Musk Mean It?
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Hi, I'm Gregory Hood, and welcome to American Renaissance.
Does Elon Musk really believe what he says about free speech?
The Tesla frontman and chief twit claims to be a champion of free speech.
Now obviously this is welcome.
The very premises of democracy and self-government are under threat when people are not allowed to discuss serious ideas.
Make no mistake, the reason race realism is revoking on social media is not because it is misinformation.
It's because it is true.
Obviously true.
There is no greater fake news than racial egalitarianism.
If we don't admit this, we can't talk intelligently about education, crime, national security, or any other important issue.
Wokeness is a civilizational threat.
Elon Musk seems to get this.
Here he is, for example, discussing free speech with Bill Maher.
I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-emeritocratic and anything that is...
That results in the suppression of free speech.
So, you know, those are two of the aspects of the work mind buyers that I think are very dangerous, is that it's often anti- bureaucratic.
You can't question things.
Even the questioning is bad.
So, you know, another way to, almost anonymous, would be cancel culture.
Free speech is actually extremely important.
And it's bizarre that we've come to this point where...
Free speech used to be a left or liberal value, and yet we see from the, in quotes, left a desire to actually censor.
And that seems crazy.
I mean, I think we should be extremely concerned about anything that undermines the First Amendment.
There's a reason for the First Amendment.
The First Amendment is because...
People came from countries where they could not speak freely and where saying certain things would get you thrown into prison.
And they were like, well, we don't want that here.
And by the way, in many parts of the world, including parts of the world that people might think are relatively similar to the United States, the speech laws are draconian.
This is all true, including his comments about the restrictions on free speech in Europe.
On Twitter, Mr. Musk is also changing the conversation.
The new Community Notes feature has proven effective in correcting media storylines, especially about race.
It lets readers give the real context the media or poster did not.
As Elon Musk explains, He's also bringing up politically incorrect ideas.
On crime, for example, Elon Musk looks at this tweet showing the way crime breaks down across racial lines and says, Both are rising.
Troubling. On affirmative action, here Mr. Musk sees an example of the way the system works and says simply, Wow!
On racial disparities, at least with crime rates.
After seeing a chart that found black-on-white crime was much more common than white-on-black crime, Mr. Musk asks, Odd, why would the media misrepresent the real situation?
Well, I can think of a few ideas.
And, of course, media manipulation.
Mr. Musk notes the ways leading newspapers have dramatically increased their mentions of race and racism.
Massive public manipulation, he says.
And that's not the only example.
In another post, he writes, Now, the only way we can combat all this is with free speech, something Mr. Musk cares deeply about, or at least says he does.
Here, Mr. Musk retweets a column that claims, Now, I can't add anything to that.
That is factually true.
In another retweet, he recommends a column arguing that hate speech laws are leading to something, quote, on the cusp of imposing what can only be described as a totalitarian system to end freedom of speech as we know it.
Mr. Musk has staked his ownership of Twitter on the idea of free speech.
As he says here, He also gave us a working definition of free speech in 2022.
By free speech, I simply mean that which matches the law.
I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.
If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of it.
Where am I going with this?
Well, you can probably guess.
As of Midway, Jared Taylor and American Renaissance have not been let back on Twitter, despite many appeals.
Neither account ever broke the Twitter terms of service, never attacked people in personal terms, or used vulgar language.
Twitter never explained why Mr. Taylor and American Renaissance were banned.
Despite promises of amnesty for suspended accounts, ours are still frozen.
I think all of us are still in shock at the way our rulers have turned so decisively against free speech since 2016.
Leftists are open about their alliance with corporate power to censor speech.
Just a few days ago, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was warning Mr. Musk that corporate power would crush Twitter if he kept flirting with politically incorrect ideas.
She tweeted, At this rate, he's going to be begging for my pillow ads in no time.
Even a so-called socialist knows that corporate America is on her side, quashing conversation about race.
Our purpose has always been to discuss the facts about race in a respectful, factual way.
Race realism is about facts, and the world is never made better by ignoring facts, or worse, censoring people to cover them up.
We should always stand for truth, and that means making a principled defense of free speech for everyone, even our opponents.
It's becoming increasingly hard to take Mr. Musk's talk about free speech seriously.
Is he afraid that in a free fight, race realism wins?
We humbly submit that restoring our accounts will be a good test of whether Elon Musk is serious about making Twitter a safe space for the truth.
Unfortunately, the American ideal of free speech is under attack as never before.
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