It's no longer okay to have a difference of opinion in politics and academia. Not so long
ago, it was possible to have a polite discussion and ask Socratic questions to determine what's right or wrong. Not anymore.
Free speech is one of Western Civilization's most important contributions to the world. Throughout history, of all the world's cultures and civilizations, only the West has made free speech and free thought into cultural icons. Free speech is a major reason why the West —with all its flaws— has always been not only different from but objectively better than any other. Incidentally, just saying that can now get you canceled or even prosecuted in some places.
Without free speech, it's very hard to have free thought because if you're forced to keep concepts within the confines of your own mind, it's very hard to explicate, expand, and concretize them. What's going on now is extremely dangerous. It amounts to putting tariffs on others' ideas so they can't enter your brain.
Europe and the Anglophone world—Australia, New Zealand, England, the US, and Canada—are turning into police states where thought crime is a real thing that can be prosecuted. It's not 1984 yet, but things are rapidly moving in that direction.
One of the most perverse aspects of the trend is that universities have become the center of this anti-freedom groupthink. They once were— and should be—centers of discussion, debate, and free thought. That's no longer true. They've become institutionally corrupt. They're no longer even places to hang out, party, and pick up a few idle facts while delaying the onset of maturity. They've mutated into something destructive and dangerous, as illustrated by the recent scandals at Columbia, Harvard, and Penn.
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Hay que repetirlo hasta el cansancio, tanto Daniel Ortega como su co-dictadora Rosario Murillo son dos autócratas insaciables. Sujetos que no respetan limites cuando matar el hambre de poder corresponde.
consistente en la subordinación de los poderes del estado, órganos legislativo, judicial, electoral, de control y fiscalización, regionales y municipales al Poder Ejecutivo, una aberración consagrada por la apócrifa Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua, compuesta por lacayos del matrimonio supremo que como siempre, votaron unánimemente a favor de la propuesta. Con esta disposición dictatorial los poderes públicos desaparecen, de hecho, la democracia deja de existir y la precaria participación ciudadana se extingue por completo por decisión de dos déspotas y la complicidad de sus servidores.
The fact is confirmed by the angry and frequently crazed political polarization here; the racial tensions and the riots; the looting and destruction that American liberals are willing to tolerate and even to excuse; the intellectual chaos and mental and moral confusion produced by “woke” colleges, universities, and the public schools, then promoted in the media; the new liberal biology (comparable to the old Soviet biology) according to which a man can become a woman and give birth to a child and which purposefully complicates the formation of sexual identity among the young.
Naturalmente, la corrupción en China no es muy diferente a la de otros países. El peligro radica en su creciente interés en tierras y recursos naturales de países menos desarrollados y su activa inversión en tierras de continentes como Latinoamérica y África donde prácticas igualmente corruptas son una oportunidad predadora para el PCC chino en su apetito por el poder totalitario.
Una política exterior orientada a reafirmar los intereses globales de los Estados Unidos es encomiable, pero se cometen errores que exigen una firme crítica. Aunque ha sido comprobado el hecho de que muchos funcionarios y miembros del personal de la UNRWA respaldaban y subsidiaban abiertamente a los terroristas de HAMAS, este hecho no tiene relación con la labor del Consejo de Derechos Humanos, aparte de que en el seno de este importantísimo organismo se hayan condenado los excesos cometidos por Israel en Gaza. Sencillamente porque esa es su función y los bombardeos indiscriminados que han causado la muerte de miles de civiles no son justificables para cualquier institución que defienda los derechos y la seguridad de las personas.