3 ms·
The real miscarriage of justice is that I can't take the tweets of "be gay do crimes" leftists off of Twitter and burn _those_. They are giving moderate liberal
by ReactiveJelly 6y ago
The real miscarriage of justice is that I can't take the tweets of "be gay do crimes" leftists off of Twitter and burn _those_. They are giving moderate liberals a bad name.
Censoring the book at this point is going to cause a Streisand Effect.
The Tweets cannot be censored, and moderates have very little control over the narrative.
What should the narrative have been?
If the book is good, "Author encourages you to form a strong relationship with your child so that strangers won't tell them what to do. In this specific case it was something about gender."
If the book is bad, "Author says some silly transphobic things, tries and fails to smear trans people. Rebuttal in the top comment."
But now that it's censored....
"Stealing things is okay because optics are not a real part of politics!"
"I will just do whatever I want, and in 1,000 years history will vindicate me and the moderates will finally stop voting Republican"
"The communist revolution is but Two Months away! Never vote in any election! Punch a moderate today!"
And on the other end of the horseshoe:
"The left wants to burn books!"
"Perhaps everyone left of center are the real Nazis!"
"When are they gonna start rounding up white people?!"
"Why do trans people drink the blood of Christian children?"
Nothing but bad-faith arguments and strawmen. Somewhere, Scott Alexander is spinning in his office chair.
It's gonna be a shitshow and the best I can hope for is a stop-loss mitigation. Please don't shoot, I'm a centrist and I like private property rights. The only book I've ever burned was an old encyclopedia I found in a dumpster.