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Far right: private businesses such as bakeries should be allowed to refuse service to whoever they want!

Also the far right: why is Facebook censoring my ability to spread hate speech!

I'm oversimplifying it, but the hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness is astounding.

This is a strawman. Who actually says both these things?

Seems no more hypocritical and self-awareness-lacking than arguing that Facebook has the right to turn away white nationalists, but that a bakery must serve all the cakes.

Either way, it's conceptual gerrymandering to carefully carve out a wiggly boundary that -- strictly by coincidence! -- protects their own side and restrains the other side.

You're equating someone asking for a cake for their same-sex marriage to hate speech? Are you kidding?

No, I'm equating one business refusing a customer to another business refusing a customer. That is how analogies work.

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