Good one by el gato malo...
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we are deeply, astonishingly, utterly and bone deep fatigued with having to cohabit with crybully cadres of smug, nasty, awful people who mistake such traits for virtue and hector others relentlessly, drunk on self-entitled zeal.
and it has suddenly become OK to tell these people off again.
it has become OK to separate from them, fire them for having low character, and require that they leave the civilized company of others.
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if you advocate violence toward people based on their views, you have stepped outside the contract of granting peaceful agency in exchange for your own.
you no longer get to whine about "cancel culture."
you lost that right when you engaged in it yourself and cheered violence in response to speech.
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the right to self-defense is fundamental and retaliation is not the same as initiating aggression. they are fundamentally different acts.
if you punch me in the face, you do not get to say βbut i thought you said you oppose punching people in the face!β when i punch you back.
thatβs not how that works.
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free speech and free association
assessing the accusations of cancel culture
