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If it becomes okay to exclude people because of their beliefs, we may feel that sanity has prevailed and a sense of victory. However, the loss of freedom can be
by stmfreak 9y ago
If it becomes okay to exclude people because of their beliefs, we may feel that sanity has prevailed and a sense of victory. However, the loss of freedom can become perverted in time and AirBnB just set a precedent for deciding which beliefs are not allowed.
When they come for you and your soon-to-be-declared radical beliefs, remember how proud you were today.
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- devnonymous 9y agoIMHO, Airbnb did the right thing and as for your what-ifs, capitalism can take care of that. If the Nazi-uber and hate-van mentioned in the article actually become profitable businesses, then there is something to feel concerned about. Not right now, not with this. > When they come for you and your soon-to-be-declared radical beliefs Airbnb is a business. Not the government. They can't come for me. I go to them and if tomorrow they declare my beliefs radical, I will not go to them.
- edanm 9y agoNazism is today considered by almost everyone a very radical belief, far more radical than almost anything else being commonly discussed in politics. Nazism is not a case of "right vs. left", "republican vs. democrat", etc. It's not a case where it's an almost 50/50 split, but because the left has more power over media/tech, then the right's views are considered fringe and are "punished". This is a case where almost everyone agrees that these views are completely outside of standard discourse. Don't conflate this with the common (and IMO somewhat valid) view that a lot of what's been happening lately is "repression" of the right by the left.