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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ahh, geez. Another thread that makes me fearful for the future of our country when people can’t discern the difference between censorship and the free market. I’m a moderate but I really hate the right at this moment for all their fear-mongering and arm-waving on click Nate topics rather than the important stuff we need to get done.

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What is the name for the free market cancelling a beloved cultual icon in accordance with an ideology I don't agree with  There is no better word than censoring right now.  If the use it enough that way, that becomes the new definition.  This happens all the time with other words.  Why fight over words? You know what they are talking about.[/quote]
It’s pretty clear that you and many others on this thread don’t know what they are talking about.[/quote]
Are you another person who is going to set me straight on what I believe and what words I am allowed to use?  When are you going to listen for understanding instead of just confirmation of your biases?
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Decisions by private entities are not censorship.[/quote]
Well they are now.  Deal with it.  It's going to get worse.  [/quote]

No, they are not. Censorship is a government telling you what you can(or must) and cannot say, and fining or jailing you for disobeying. A company that decides to cease selling love volume publications is not censorship.[/quote]
What's it called when a woke agenda infiltrates the minds of white elites who then hunt for real problems in the wrong places?  Let me know when you have a name for this.[/quote]

Um.  The normal evolution of culture?  How do you think interracial marriage became widely accepted or pre-marital sex wasn’t something people were ashamed of?  Some people decided those things needed to change in society, went about seeking like minded people. When enough people believed that way, people that are serving the public (companies with broad based appeal as an example), changed their practices.  This is not some new phenomenon.  Why aren’t we all sitting around a campfire discussing the movement of the herd?  Because society evolves. [/quote]
Sure, and many of those changes were controversial.  And they were described in ways that other people didn't like.  And the meanings of words changes too.  All the time.  Simply by using words in new ways that are perfectly understandable but other people don't like it.  And they count themselves smart as they applaud one change and ridicule another.  [/quote]

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