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After spending the last few years gleefully cheering for Republicans to be banned from every online platform, it feels pretty fake to be outraged over a single
by apostacy 5y ago
After spending the last few years gleefully cheering for Republicans to be banned from every online platform, it feels pretty fake to be outraged over a single schoolboard somewhere editing their suggested reading list.
I used to see stories like this all the time in my social media feed 10 years ago, during the peak of the new atheist phenomenon. But it feels really out of place now. Especially because of people's warming to censorship.
- NoraCodes 5y agoYou've made essentially the same comment in three separate places in this thread. This kind of passive-voice imputation is neither productive nor intellectually honest. _Who_ has been "spending the last few years..."? Is it the same people who are now "outraged over a single schoolboard..."? Can you show that? I suspect you can't, and that you're suggesting it only because it fits your ideological biases.
- apostacy 5y ago> _Who_ has been "spending the last few years..."? Is it the same people who are now "outraged over a single schoolboard..."? Can you show that? Of course it is the same people, that was implied by my sentence, obviously. Just being willfully dense and refusing to comprehend what someone says does not refute them. If you had spent any time reading HN, you would see the plethora of commenters who would defend actions far more egregious than what is alleged to have been done by this schoolboard. In threads discussing California's changes to their curriculum, there was a sea of commenters defending things far more absurd than the scopes monkey trial. It would take me less than five minutes to use the hackernews search tool to find these threads, must I do that for you? Are you really going to make me spoon feed you?