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I don't see how what your upset about is new or connected to social networks. McCarthyism existed two decades before the first networked computers and was the e
by nickelpro 5y ago
I don't see how what your upset about is new or connected to social networks. McCarthyism existed two decades before the first networked computers and was the exact same thing as what you're describing.
I agree, people are shitty, but trying to legally limit the speech of people you don't like is exactly opposite the values of free ideas that we usually try to support. Or at least the ones that I support.
- esyir 5y agoYeah, I agree. Let's rescind all protected classes ASAP.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoProtected classes were supposed to be about things that are innate, like skin color or ancestry, not about your ideas or speech. Obviously religion is sort of borderline here.
- zozbot234 5y agoReligion is not any more borderline than gender. Neither is strictly innate, but we're not OK with people being forced to change their gender for the sake of some abstract social equality. And gender, like religious values, is something that's deeply felt as one's personal expression. But this is also true wrt. many political stances.