25 Things Liberals say to censor free speech

1. "It's (this year). You can't possibly support (name of thing liberal opposes)." [Assuming that the year has anything to do with whether something is right or wrong]

2. Why do you hate (name of group) so much?!" [Jumping to conclusions]

3. "Everyone should have equal rights. Why do you disagree?!" [Assumes one is against "equal rights" because one opposes a specific ideological or political agenda]

4. "You can't say that! You're privileged!" ["Privilege" is a meaningless statement, designed to disqualify someone from saying something, no matter how well-reasoned their arguments are. It also attacks the source, not the argument itself.]

5. "Bigot!" [Name-calling, also known as the ad hominem fallacy]

6. "I'll bet you heard that on Fox News." [Largely irrelevant, as it attacks the source, not the argument or purported facts.]

7. "Why are you so (racist/bigoted/homophobic/sexist/whatever)?" [More name-calling]

8. "The Constitution was written by a bunch of rich white men!" [Attacking the source, again]

9. "That's hate speech!" [Fear-mongering. They call anything they disagree with "hate"]

10. "Your sense of entitlement is showing." [Much like the term "hate", liberals use "entitlement" to try to disqualify someone from speaking about something, no matter how well-reasoned their arguments are.]

11. "Reality has a liberal bias." [This one is simply a lie. Reality and facts are objective, while political ideologies are biased.]

12. "You know who else supported/opposed (name of controversial thing)? The Nazis!" [This is an example of the associative fallacy, whereby something a group did "makes it bad". The Nazis did many bad things. They also did many neutral things such as build roads. By that liberal logic, road-building would also be bad because the Nazis did it. And Hitler ate sugar too.]

13. "You only oppose him/her because he/she is (black/a woman/gay/whatever)."[Making assumptions and using name-calling by labeling a person a racist, sexist, or homophobe by implication.]

14. "If you don't support affirmative action, you must be racist (or sexist)!" [Name calling mixed with fear-mongering, trying to intimidate, not rationally persuade or convince.]

15. "No dialogue with hate!" [An empty slogan. Google it to read more about it, but it is just name-calling directed against anyone who disagrees with them, in an attempt to shut them up.]

16. "The Taliban would agree with you there." [Another associative fallacy]

17. "(Name of thing liberal likes) is legal now. The sky hasn't fallen." [And the sky would not fall if we repealed the thing the liberal liked. It is irrelevant.]

18. "The founders only meant for the 2nd amendment to cover flintlock muskets!" [This is historically inaccurate. The founders wanted the citizenry to be armed with what they needed to resist government tyranny. If this confuses a liberal, tell them that the founders couldn't have imagined radio, movies, TV, or the internet, and yet the 1st amendment covers those more advanced things as well, so the 2nd amendment covers more advanced things too. Both amendments are part of the same Bill of Rights, after all.]

19. "(Name of person) was (racist/sexist/whatever) so he was wrong about everything!" [Another example of attacking the person, not what they said]

20. "Your views are too Eurocentric." [Europe drove most of world history from 1492 to 1945. No amount of liberal whining will change that most of the modern world IS in fact Eurocentric.]

21. "If you don't support (liberal agenda), you must be a reactionary!" [More jumping to conclusions, although the term "reactionary" is not used all that often anymore].

22. "Poverty causes terrorism!" [This has been proven false by many observed facts and studies. Most terrorists are at least middle-class. Ideology causes terrorism, not poverty. Assuming that class warfare or economic explanations underlay everything is an outdated Marxist view from the mid-1800s]

23. "Stop making heteronormative/cisgendered assumptions!" [Might as well be calling one a "bigot". See above.]

24. "I represent the views of the 99%!" [Even if one could represent that many people, it is an example of bandwagon appeal and thus a fallacy. Just look up "Ike for president" to see an example of that. Simply holding a popular view doesn't make it factually correct.]

25. "Stop triggering me!" [Playing the victim card to shut up the opposition is a dirty tactic. It also has nothing to do with whether one is right or not. Someone can be "triggered" to panic by a mention of dandelions, and it would not make one wrong to say that dandelions are a kind of plant matter.]

Bonus: "You're on the wrong side of history!" [Outside of theological arguments, history has no side. It is simply a sequence of events and conditions and the causes and effects of those events and conditions. History also has a tendency to "change direction" quite often. That's how countries rise and fall. If something is "winning" today, it could be losing a decade or two from now. Even if it looks unbeatable, it may not be.]