Inbox: President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 1, 2018, as Loyalty Day
— Jill Colvin (@colvinj) May 1, 2018
Of course Trump didn’t invent it — he couldn’t invent a fart after a baked-bean supper, which explains why so much toxic gas spews from the other end of his digestive tract. Per the Washington Post:
… First observed in 1921, it was then called Americanization Day to counter International Workers Day, promoted by socialists and Communists to honor workers on May 1. In 1955, Congress recognized it as a special day, as did President Eisenhower, and three years later legislators passed a law making it an annual holiday. Since then, every president has issued a proclamation to mark the day — every single year…
So, it’s a shifty rebrand of a well-meaning socialist rebrand of a longstanding celebration of winter’s end, the triumph of hope and fertility…
Much better reading for a May Day morning:
"Free speech does not mean that you have to respect the speaker . . . It means that you don't use the mechanism of the state to stop them." — @Popehat
— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) April 28, 2018
/3 If you want to be a free speech advocate, not a free speech “activist,” you have to resist the current effort to make free speech a right/left my team/your team partisan issue. That gets clicks but doesn’t educate or persuade.
— EverybodySueEverybodyHat (@Popehat) April 29, 2018
/5 You have to care about winning hearts and minds, not just “winning.” We’re in very good legal shape now, but that won’t last unless we convince each generation that rights are worth it.
— FiteMeHat (@Popehat) April 29, 2018
/6 You have to make deliberate moral choices: how to respond to evil speech, how to engage people whose speech you hate, how to engage people who want to suppress speech rather than just dismissing them.
— FiteMeHat (@Popehat) April 29, 2018
/8 Anyway, it’s easy to dump on college students — ive done it — but these young people made me hopeful, and I think the doom and gloom about higher education is both exaggerated and ideologically motivated. /end
— EverybodySueEverybodyHat (@Popehat) April 29, 2018
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