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If "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'

If "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 ago
I 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 ago
  Deplatforming 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 ago
    There'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 ago
      The president was censored (for violating TOS) after he called for violence. I experience linear time, how about you?

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If "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'

by joshuahaglund 6y ago

cbozeman 6y ago
I 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 ago
  Deplatforming 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 ago
    There'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 ago
      The president was censored (for violating TOS) after he called for violence. I experience linear time, how about you?