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Check back when Bernie (or the next Bernie, if he doesn't run again) is deplatformed, and we'll see who was confused. Just remember back to how the media and e
by Reedx 6y ago
Check back when Bernie (or the next Bernie, if he doesn't run again) is deplatformed, and we'll see who was confused.
Just remember back to how the media and establishment pulled together to stop Bernie during the primaries. Think this new tool won't be used the next time they're in danger of losing power to an outsider?
- joshuahaglund 6y agoIf "the next Bernie" promotes violence then he's not the next Bernie and I won't support him and I don't understand what's so hard to understand about that. Y'all think "it's both sides" but, in America, this call to violence (straight up armed insurrection) is unique in right wing politics. And if it showed up in the Left I wouldn't tolerate it. Show me someone on the right who was deplatformed who didn't preach hate.
- cbozeman 6y agoI can show you people on the left who got deplatformed. What's that feminist lady who literally got banned for saying, "Men are not women."? I forget her name. I'm waiting for Joanne Rowling to get deplatformed for having the audacity to think that there's a portion of transgender men who are using certain aspects of the left's current moral panicking to infiltrate women's spaces. How dare she have an opinion that's critical of ... shuffles cards... whatever group we feel the need to swoop in and save to assuage our guilt for being the world's most successful society!
- joshuahaglund 6y agoDeplatforming is when a company kicks someone off its service for violating TOS. Canceling is when a community who previously supported someone sees another side of them and changes its mind. I believe you're conflating the two. But neither is a call to violence. As others have said, stop the false equivalence.
- cbozeman 6y agoThere's exactly a call to violence, because that's all you left for the person you're censoring. As soon as you take the position that words can no longer be exchanged, the only other option you've left open is violence. This isn't - or at least shouldn't - be hard to understand.
- joshuahaglund 6y agoThe president was censored (for violating TOS) after he called for violence. I experience linear time, how about you?
- hctaw 6y agoPlease stop with the false equivalencies. Donald Trump directed a mob to storm the Capitol while they were certifying election results, the ensuing riot led to at least five deaths. He is being deplatformed because of the impending threat of violence he presents. This isn't a hypothetical situation - he held a rally, incited a riot, and people died.
- Reedx 6y agoNot saying it is or will be the same. It isn't and won't be. This is about a TOOL. You don't have to use a tool the same way every time.