>>490251 (OP)>Why is the left so fucking censorship/ban happy?<HistoryIn Socialist countries like the Soviet Union for example censorship was basically admitting defeat to capitalist media industry, they could not produce anywhere near the volume of high production value media as the west. To be fair to the soviets, in practice the spectrum of ideas that they allowed was much broader than what you could do in the west when you considered the limitations of commercial viability. 80s Soviet Scifi is wild and mind-bending.
<the political economy of immigration under capitalismIn bourgeois politics the purpose of the liberals is to import cheap immigrant labor, and the purpose of the right is to attack their status to make the imported labor easier to exploit.
To be fair to both sides, the liberals genuinely want to treat immigrants as equals and the right genuinely only wants to keep them out. The capitalists cherry pick the parts of each side that serve their ends. That leads to bad social consequences and then they get both sides to blame each other for the shitty result. Out of that animosity comes the desire to get the other side shut up.
Immigrants could be integrated but if you silo them into ghettos, it creates more opportunity for divide and conquer, and ruling classes do like to divide and conquer. I think the US doesn't have high immigrant crime rate, but in some places like in France (don't quote me on that) there is indeed a higher crime rate. But that is not the result of immigration it's the result of silo-ed off population groups.
<the socialist positionYou can demand to limit the influx of immigrant workers until there is full employment and immigration no longer creates wage-dumping-competition.
You cannot demand the government round up certain people and get them deported unless they committed a extra serious crime. You can only punish people for what they do, not for what they are. Also the ruling class wants to beta-test hardcore repression on immigrants and then role it out to the rest of society later.
They will not stop at immigrants, eventually they'll do it to you
<the dark side of the rightA section of the right wants to create a cast system where certain people are not granted the same rights as others.
Another dark side is trying to scape-goat immigrants for the shit capitalism fucks up.
<the dark side of the liberalsMany libs simply are well off enough to be able to hire a
servant household-help and immigrants are the people willing to do that for low pay.
Another dark side is that they like to shit on workers of lower socio-econonmic status, but they can't do that openly they need a pretext, an excuse to kick down. Appearing to combat racist attitude works for that purpose. It's perhaps a more clever way to status-bully. The purity-test exclusion stuff that
>>490252 mentions can be part of this too. Although sometimes it's just tribal or sectarian shit-headedness.
<the material forces that drive migrationThe biggest cause for immigration is mostly imperialism, countries low in the imperial pecking order get held down and then a part of their population leaves, seeking escape the strangle-hold of empire. The second cause is that it's economically advantage for countries to do this because immigrants are labor-power where other countries payed for the schools and whatnot, that's an economic free lunch.
<circling back to censorshipRuling classes want to controle what the dominant ideas are in a society. So they promote censorious leanings. They don't necessarily care what gets censored at first, they just want censorship structures to be created, which they can take over later.