I would like to briefly reflect on an event announced some time ago through www.al.com and other sources regarding social scholar Jared Taylor’s planned visit to the University of Alabama on behalf of an invitation issued by a former Source-registered undergraduate organization called Students for America First. Many individuals were very quick to disavow in the strongest terms the character of Jared Taylor, the group hosting him, and the overall visit itself despite the action in of itself being perfectly legal in accordance with the First Amendment of the US Constitution as it applies to public universities, or other educational institutions accepting federal aid. Many sought to “expose” members of Students for America First, with an attempt being waged to contact peoples’ schools, fraternities and employers in an attempt to ruin their personal lives in the stigma of associating with the University-registered organization. I think that’s unacceptable and inherently dishonest considering the stated reasons the group invited Jared Taylor to campus to begin with.

The reasons for the visit were, as stated, to promote the free dissection of ideas of the American people after Jared Taylor was removed from multiple large media hosts such as Twitter. Students for America First, in their official view, wants students to make their own decisions in the free marketplace of ideas and visions rather than having certain views promoted and censored by a conglomerate of incredibly large, world spanning, super-wealthy media firms driven by a vested interest in catering to similarly-affluent and influential advertisers. Regardless of what is being said by any one speaker, I do not believe in not merely the legal right against government persecution of speech, but the cultural vision of a true freedom of speech being infringed upon by an organized, connected coalition of the world’s largest and most powerful corporations.

I would think this is a view liberals can get behind - they are often vocal voices against crony capitalist elites perpetuating views they disagree with, however, I’ve found the opposite to be true. The left-leaning spectrum appears to wholly support both the censoring of speech through incredibly powerful and far-reaching corporate bodies, as well as the University’s decision to shut down the event and attempt to close Students for America First as a student body. These left-leaning advocates bravely endorse the decisions of the world’s globalized, uber-rich media elite and honor themselves as countercultural warriors in doing so. It’s this delusion that, I fear, will surrender maximum power to those who need it the least as they act as useful idiots for an inherently malicious attempt to police what Americans and, more importantly, all people worldwide are allowed to see and hear.