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Which viewpoints?
by gzread 6mo ago
Which viewpoints?
- swat535 6mo agoI mean any conservative view points? Immigration, DEI policies, euthanasia, pro life, gender roles, trans sexuality.. Discuss any of these on Twitter would get you banned, until Musk took over. It still does on many left leaning platforms, including Youtube, Twitch, BlueSky, etc. HN is the only platform I've participated in that tends to allow opposing view points (albeit more left leaning). If EFF wants to declare that it's now a Left leaning activist entity and doesn't like to engage wit other people, that's fine, I'd rather they just say that instead and be honest.
- habinero 6mo agoYou can discuss all of those things just fine, both now and then. I have, and never got banned for any of them. The problem is online/MAGA conservatives don't want to discuss those things. I've never talked to any online conservative who had anything new or interesting to say about any of those things.
- nailer 6mo ago“A man can never be a woman” and “ok dude” got people banned on old Twitter.
- gzread 6mo agoWell the first is just plain old bog-standard bigotry. What was the "ok dude" in response to?
- nailer 6mo agoNo ‘a man can never be a woman’ is a fact and mainstream view. Disliking your sex isn't an innate characteristic and you have no right to force others to believe your illusion or participate in your gender performance. More to the point you just claimed discussion of these matters wasn’t ever suppressed and then attempted to suppress discussion of them by claiming this was bigoted.
- throwaway902984 6mo agoYou're denying the existence of a marginalized group and claiming, "there is no bigotry here!" You see that that is risible, right?
- nailer 6mo agoPeople with gender dysphoria exist. THey are not marginalised: they have the same rights as every other person has. It is not bigotry to not participate in their gender performance, because gender performance is not an innate characteristic, as already mentioned to you in the comment you're replying to.
- account42 6mo ago[flagged]
- account42 6mo agoAnd in soviet Russia you can criticize the government all you want --- as long as you're criticizing the American government.