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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a fundamental difference between the cancel culture that the left engages in and the “canceling” that the right is doing in the wake of Charlie's assassination and the left's celebration of it.

The difference is that the left will cancel you for saying objectively true, good, normal things.

To the extent the right cancels you, it's for objectively abhorrent, perverse, sick things.

This distinction matters. For years, the problem with the left's attack on speech is not just that they're attacking speech, but that they're attacking true and right speech.

They want you to be fired for saying men can't have babies, women don't have penises.

The problem isn't simply trying to get you fired for saying something. They want to punish truth, and that will always be worse, obviously, significantly worse.

There is a difference between the statement 'Men aren't women' and the statement 'Charlie Kirk deserved to die because he was a fascist, Nazi, racist, bigot.'

What's the difference? The first statement is the most obviously true thing anyone can ever say.

The second statement is not only a lie that smears the good name of an innocent man, but also implicitly encourages violence against millions of people who agree with his politics.

The idea that we can't advocate social consequences without accepting or approving such consequences for the former statement is asinine.

The idea that society must treat all speech exactly the same is ludicrous.

I don't think that such ranting should be made illegal. I don't think the people celebrating Charlie's death should be banned by the government from saying those things. But it is good that they are humiliated and must live with the repercussions for it.

Free speech does not mean that we should act with anything but revulsion and disgust to people who say revolting and disgusting things.

Take the nurse. Her first reaction was to cuss out his kids and their mother and gloat about the murder.

That kind of statement is not just an expression of opinion. It is a revelation of character of someone who is barely human at this point.

It's the character of someone who should be shunned and alienated by society.

Not through force of law, not through legislation or legal consequence, certainly not through violence, but through social rejection.

Because people who cuss out the children of men who are murdered on live TV deserve to be treated as monsters.

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I started to reply to this, point-by-point. But damn, there is not arguing with delusional people.[/quote]

It’s a solid wall of crazy.[/quote]

It is! And such a huge divide in this country. The right can’t even hear what the left is saying. Sad.[/quote]

Not really. Most of us agree on most things (check the issue polling).

It’s just that the extremists have the (virtual) megaphones and vote disproportionately in primaries.

Eff the nutter Rs and the progressive left.[/quote]

But the Rs paint all liberals (see DJT’s comments) as progressive left; in reality it is a small faction of the party. [/quote]

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