Hirsanyi: Progressive Claims To Protect Us From "Disinformation" Are Ploys To Promote Censorship Of Non-Progressive Views

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Progressivism is illiberalism. As such, it values acceptance of its dogma more than it values rational and open debate--if it even values the latter two at all. Liberalism (broadly construed) aims to reach truth--which it believes to be the positions it accepts--via rational and open debate. It tends to value the process over its output and, hence, energetically protects free speech and inquiry. Progressivism's strategy is to deploy a vast array of debate-stifling tactics (ad hominem character assassination, narrowing legal speech protections, assertions that debates are already been settled in their favor, mob intimidation and violence). In short: liberalism (broadly construed) aims to foster debate and win with arguments. Progressivism aims to stifle debate and win via nonrational methods.