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Id be interested to know the story behind this historian getting banned for impersonating Hitler - that initially sounds like it would be a rhetorical tactic or
by beaconstudios 5y ago
Id be interested to know the story behind this historian getting banned for impersonating Hitler - that initially sounds like it would be a rhetorical tactic or mocking impression; in which case, why ban him? Either there's more to the story, or the union banned him on bad info (which seems to happen semi regularly with regard to deplatforming), or they have a radically new woke take where lampooning fascists is bad now.
Edit:
> In a letter, published on Facebook, Mr Bradwell said Mr Graham-Dixon offended members when he used Hitler's "deplorable" words about Jewish and black people in his speech
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-59214397.amp https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-5921439...
That seems like a bad idea. Even if you're not expressing those sentiments yourself, voicing them out loud is certainly going to upset some people.
- sam_lowry_ 5y agoSo what? It is ok to be upset from time to time. Or even most of the time.
- beaconstudios 5y agoTrue, but some people might not want to hear from you again if you upset them. It's a pretty marginal/debatable example tbh.