Ben Garrison’s response to the Think Progress article
If you’re a patriot and believe your country should come first, then
you will be labeled a ‘nationalist.’ If you happen to be white you will
then be called a ‘white nationalist,’ then smeared as a ‘white
supremacist’ and then a ‘Nazi.’ That’s the modus operandi of the
mainstream media these days as well as neo liberal lefty so-called
‘progressive’ sites.
I knew what I was in for when I granted an interview with “Think
Progress” and of course they left out nearly all of the good things I
said about President Trump and instead concentrated on my criticism of
him.
Then they framed it all with a pejorative headline.The published
biased interview confirmed my suspicions, this is what happens when you
agree to an interview with Fake News Media.
As for my ‘hate speech is not free speech’ gaffe in 2014, it’s
something I’ll never live down. In my defense, it pertained to Facebook
and their community standards, which in my case they refused to enforce
without a lot of legal persuasion. The reporter dug it up and added it
in as a ‘gotcha’ side issue.
If he would have brought it up to me directly I would have explained
to him that I meant that it’s not free on Facebook and other social
media, which have rules against such stuff…but at the time Facebook was
allowing libelous doppleganger pages using my face, name and altered
cartoons to stand. Those vile pages featured a dopplegänger version of
me who screamed for the murder of blacks, Jews and gay people.
I caught the flak and hate mail, to the delight of the trolls.
Facebook allowed the pages to stand for long periods of time–most likely
because of my conservative stances. They must have thought I ‘deserved’
it. Facebook would explain that such pages didn’t violate their rules
and I had to get my lawyer involved at one point.
Nowadays the MSM and Silicon Valley along with the SPLC and ADL all
want to decide what hate speech is and that’s very dangerous. People are
already getting censored for politically incorrect viewpoints. These
days, just to be a Trump supporter is to be a ‘hater.’ Check out
Ben's Cartoons and Blog
—Ben Garrison
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