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His point is that it used to be that leftists defended freedom of speech from conservative oppression. Now it's the other way around.

• MisterBastahrd 7y ago
  Leftists aren't actually oppressing anybody. We're still under the rule of the far-right in the US (a country which does not actually have a left wing by Western standards). Voting with your dollar and pointing out bigotry and inequality is not oppression.
  • darawk 7y ago
    > Leftists aren't actually oppressing anybody. Well, that's certainly not true. They are absolutely oppressing people. They may be oppressing people that you or even I think ought be oppressed, but that doesn't mean they're not doing it. > We're still under the rule of the far-right in the US (a country which does not actually have a left wing by Western standards). That's true around economic issues. It's not so true around identity politics. The political climate around those issues in the US is very much left of center. > Voting with your dollar and pointing out bigotry and inequality is not oppression. That kind of depends on what exactly you mean by that. Naming and shaming individuals for social transgressions based on hearsay seems pretty oppressive to me.
  • jessaustin 7y ago
    Leftists aren't, but Democratic Party partisans are. The difference is confusing to Americans.