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What if a political opponent's main platform position and primary rhetorical tactic is to make discriminatory statements? You can't just turn around and say "do
by lghh 8y ago
What if a political opponent's main platform position and primary rhetorical tactic is to make discriminatory statements? You can't just turn around and say "don't ban me, it's just politics!".
- geezerjay 8y ago> What if a political opponent's main platform position and primary rhetorical tactic is to make discriminatory statements? Censorship is never the solution. Censorship is the problem. Keep censoring idiots instead of demonstrating they are idiots and you end up making them out to be poor democratic martyrs instead. Have they learned nothing from the history of fascist europe?
- badwolf 8y agoA privately owned and operated web forum isn't exactly comparable to fascist Europe. Don't be disingenuous.
- zimpenfish 8y ago> Keep censoring idiots instead of demonstrating they are idiots and you end up making them out to be poor democratic martyrs instead. Trump got far and away the majority of news coverage in the run up to the 2016 election. Everything he said was breathlessly reported, fact checked, and sometimes mocked for its inanity. That did not work out well.