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Genuine question, what does deplatforming conservatives have to do with Victorianism?

• dougmwne 3y ago
  It's a narrowing of the Overton window, not any one specific topic being accepted in public discourse.
  • adamsmith143 3y ago
    Despite the fact that the Victorian era was quite conservative? So your point doesn't make a lot of sense to me. We're moving to a neo-victorian(more conservative/prude) era that is also shutting down Conservative speech?
    • local_crmdgeon 3y ago
      It's not about the content, it's about the restrictions to a dogma
    • dougmwne 3y ago
      Yes, it has absolutely nothing to do with the exact ideology and everything to do with a narrowing of what is publicly acceptable. For an example, compare any hollywood comedy from 10 years ago to one from today. So it's neo-victorian in the sense that we have become quite prudish about what we allow in public, but nothing to do with exactly what we allow, which of course, would have made the actual Victorians blush.