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These things always start with moves that sound completely reasonable. Only time will tell if they expand their moderation demands.
by throwawayboise 6y ago
These things always start with moves that sound completely reasonable. Only time will tell if they expand their moderation demands.
- klmadfejno 6y agoSure. And yet, completely reasonable things overwhelmingly tend not to lead to extreme outcomes. Only time will tell, but the point is that this is hardly an urgent warning sign.
- svachalek 6y agoIndeed, this line of thinking is known as the Slippery Slope Fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
- multjoy 6y agoWhat are these things, specifically?
- Y-bar 6y ago> First they came for the nazis and qanon extremists threatening democracy, and I said nothing because fuck those people, they are the reason this verse exists.
- klmadfejno 6y agoI would note, the original line is something along the lines of "i did nothing because I wasn't one of them". The line genuinely doesn't hold up as especially powerful when its "I did nothing because they self identify as a hate group against people like me"
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y agoSo, stop doing completely reasonable things then?