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I gotta say, this is some next-level red baiting.
by zahmahkibo 11y ago
I gotta say, this is some next-level red baiting.
- 13thLetter 11y agoWhat was incorrect about his statement?
- zahmahkibo 11y agoIt is two thousand and sixteen in the year of our Lord. Redbaiting doesn't work any more; McCarthy is death. Screaming "BUT WILL SOMEONE JUST THINK ABOUT THE VILE, VILE COMMUNISTS?" at every turn to suppress dissent no longer works. It is an evasionist tactic.
- 13thLetter 11y agoYou've missed the point. Namely: If one person's semi-trollish advocacy of monarchy under a pseudonym several years ago means he's too dangerous to be allowed to speak at a tech conference, then surely other people's absolutely sincere advocacy of Communism under their own names, today, would make them even more dangerous, and they should also be barred from speaking... right? If not, why not?
- zahmahkibo 11y agoBecause communism isn't more dangerous than Fascism