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I couldn't agree more. In a town like SV where almost everyone is liberal, the problem is conservatives. Oh, do I need to state that was sarcasm? > This is li
by T2_t2 9y ago
I couldn't agree more. In a town like SV where almost everyone is liberal, the problem is conservatives.
Oh, do I need to state that was sarcasm?
> This is like walking into a megachurch in Mississippi and complaining that no one wants to listen to your opinions on reproductive health care.
How can you not see the irony in this? Your example is a bad outcome. SV doing the reverse is bad. Not there are ideas that are OK and ideas that are bad, contextually, and alienating people is all good and fine, where my badness is OK if it is proportional and opposite to your badness. Intolerance ITSELF is the problem, fullstop, no matter the "rightness" of the idea.
We live in a diverse world, and finding ways to get along is the key. How can we do that when any form of alienation is defended?
- ajross 9y agoArgument isn't the same as "alienation" though. The post is a bunch of whining about how you "can't say" stuff because people won't like you if you do. Well, duh. What you and the poster say you want is Free Speech in some kind of abstract principled sense. What you actually want is a safe space where people won't argue with you for believing different things. Thus, strawman.