Dear Caitlin Johnstone,

John Egan
John Egan
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

If you can title your recent piece, “Please Just Fucking Die Already” — then I should be able to post a response to an earlier article of yours on Syria saying, “Do you have shit for brains or what?” without being blocked.

Quite frankly, I think you represent all that plagues the left and leaves us resembling nothing more than the Judean Liberation Front of Monty Python fame. Oh so right. Oh so righteous. Except that nobody really listens or cares.

I find it illustrative that you feel perfectly in your rights doling out obscenities and insults, but when someone challenges you with a rather mild expletive, you rush to the “Block” button. That is precisely why the left finds itself under increasing ridicule. People leftier than thou love to toss out terms like “fascist” and “denier” and “racist”, but if someone uses something like “illegal immigrant” it is a microaggression.

It’s either one or the other. If you claim the right to speak openly about issues with the language you choose — and that is precisely how you have responded to criticism of your piece — then you need to accept that other people have that right as well.

I support your right to speak in whatever terms you choose — however disgusting and politically inept I may think that may be.

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