{"id":12319,"date":"2020-04-21T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12319"},"modified":"2020-04-20T16:09:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:09:37","slug":"suppression-of-expression-obscures-the-truth-about-the-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/suppression-of-expression-obscures-the-truth-about-the-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppression of Expression Obscures the Truth About the Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans are acquainted with predictable but ultimately failed progressive efforts to suppress free expression by preemptive invective and politically correct finger-pointing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To believe that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s accusers revealed too many contradictions, too many lacunae, too many episodes of timely amnesia, and too many unsubstantiated accusations in their testimonies was chauvinistically to attack\/smear\/silence all women\u2019s voices\u2014at least until the same sort of memory-repressed accusations focused on handsy Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To express skepticism that current global temperatures are uniformly rising almost entirely due to human carbon emissions, that this state of affairs poses catastrophic dangers that may end civilization as we know it, and that this emergency can only be addressed by the radical restructuring of global economies is to be rendered a denialist, a crank, a fool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But these parameters of censorship have a logic and predictability, given their race\/class\/gender\/environmental orthodoxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Shifting Pandemic Orthodoxy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>What explains the current taboo on topics regarding the coronavirus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/04\/19\/suppression-of-expression-obscures-the-truth-about-the-virus\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Americans are acquainted with predictable but ultimately failed progressive efforts to suppress free expression by preemptive invective and politically correct finger-pointing. To believe that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s accusers revealed too many contradictions, too many lacunae, too many episodes of timely amnesia, and too many unsubstantiated accusations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3cH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11443,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/one-ford-narrative-too-many\/","url_meta":{"origin":12319,"position":0},"title":"One Ford Narrative Too Many","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In the end, the Christine Blasey Ford accusations collapsed. 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And there is no case for Trump any more than there was a case\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10375,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/military-history-in-the-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":12319,"position":2},"title":"Military History In The News","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Stalin\u2019s Greatness? by Andrew Roberts \u201cThe Red Army could have defeated Nazi Germany without Allied help,\u201d records The Times of London, \u201caccording to two thirds of Russians, who are adopting an increasingly positive view of Joseph Stalin\u2019s wartime leadership despite the enormous casualties suffered under his command.\u201d This worrying sign\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/StalinPoster071217.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9938,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9938-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12319,"position":3},"title":"From an Angry Reader: Read\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: Read your column on immigration published in the 2\/24\/2017 Morning Call (Lehigh Valley, PA) and was wondering - you seemed to indicate that falsification of government affidavits should be grounds for deportation.\u00a0 Since it appears that Melanie Trump was employed in violation of her visa in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11134,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ideology-of-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":12319,"position":4},"title":"The Ideology of Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Gang members next door and dead dogs dumped in your yard? 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