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Comment by kemiller | Hacker News Reader

Nowhere in the constitution are you protected from consequences when you say something stupid, and right-leaning folks have been saying this particular stupid thing a bit too often. Have the offices of Fox News or Breitbart or the Creation Science Museum been raided by police? No? Then this is not even close to parallel.

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There’s a seam of individuals cutting across the political spectrum that is confused about their right to speak freely. They think it translates to a right to force everyone to listen to them. Then they become shirty when told to fuck off.

It’s naturally correlated to extremities of viewpoint, both due to the absence of critical thinking on the part of the complainant and the elevated likelihood their views fall outside a certain window of acceptability.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1282404647160942598.html

One side has to show tolerance, convince others and be kind. Instead, we are throwing people under the bus, enranging them further and permanently affecting their mental health - they'll never to ever listen to any progressive voice.

This is an absolute disaster. People forget that the point of debates and exercise in politics is to convince the other side and get their vote. May be I am crazy to think this way.

There are plenty of examples but you won't hear about those things if all your information comes from the corporate press.

Someone else in the comments posted a twitter app with many examples but when someone finally posts the receipts, nobody follows up. What does that tell me? People are not interested in the truth but defending their tribe.

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