I looked at all the examples of supposed left-wing suppression of free speech in your post, and all the ones you cited were from unabashed racists and sexists. Obviously hate speech should never be given a platform. Therefore, I don’t agree with that part of your post. However, I am concerned about all the things you listed in the section about right wing polarization. Perhaps that should have been what your post is about instead. It’s frankly annoying for people to pull the “both sides are equal” nonsense, as you seem to have done here.
If you would like to avoid being deplatformed or called out, perhaps the best advice is to simply not make bigoted statements. That certainly seems easier than fleeing to another country.
Claims that people are “unabashed racists and sexists” should at least be backed up with actual examples. Like this, I cannot know whether you have good reasons for that believe that I don’t see (to the very least not in all of the cases), or whether we have the same information but fundamentally disagree about what constitutes “unabashed racism”.
I agree with the feeling that the post undersells concerns about the right wing, but I don’t think you will convince anybody without any arguments except for a weakly supported claim that the concern about the left is overblown. I also agree that “both sides are equal” is rarely true, but again just claiming that does not show anyone that the side you prefer is better (see that comment where someone essentially argues the same for the other side; Imagine I haven’t thought about this topic before, how am I supposed to choose whom of you two to listen to?).
“If you would like to avoid being deplatformed or called out, perhaps the best advice is to simply not make bigoted statements. That certainly seems easier than fleeing to another country.” The author seems to be arguing that it might make sense to be prepared to flee the country if things become a lot worse than deplatforming. While I think that the likelihood of this happening is fairly small (although this course of action would be equally advisable if things got a lot worse on the right wing), they are clearly not advocating to leave the country in order to avoid being “called out”.
Lastly, I sincerely hope that all of the downvotes are for failing to comply with the commenting guidlines of “Aim to explain, not persuade, Try to be clear, on-topic, and kind; and Approach disagreements with curiosity” and not because of your opinions.
I looked at all the examples of supposed left-wing suppression of free speech in your post, and all the ones you cited were from unabashed racists and sexists. Obviously hate speech should never be given a platform. Therefore, I don’t agree with that part of your post. However, I am concerned about all the things you listed in the section about right wing polarization. Perhaps that should have been what your post is about instead. It’s frankly annoying for people to pull the “both sides are equal” nonsense, as you seem to have done here.
If you would like to avoid being deplatformed or called out, perhaps the best advice is to simply not make bigoted statements. That certainly seems easier than fleeing to another country.
Claims that people are “unabashed racists and sexists” should at least be backed up with actual examples. Like this, I cannot know whether you have good reasons for that believe that I don’t see (to the very least not in all of the cases), or whether we have the same information but fundamentally disagree about what constitutes “unabashed racism”.
I agree with the feeling that the post undersells concerns about the right wing, but I don’t think you will convince anybody without any arguments except for a weakly supported claim that the concern about the left is overblown. I also agree that “both sides are equal” is rarely true, but again just claiming that does not show anyone that the side you prefer is better (see that comment where someone essentially argues the same for the other side; Imagine I haven’t thought about this topic before, how am I supposed to choose whom of you two to listen to?).
“If you would like to avoid being deplatformed or called out, perhaps the best advice is to simply not make bigoted statements. That certainly seems easier than fleeing to another country.” The author seems to be arguing that it might make sense to be prepared to flee the country if things become a lot worse than deplatforming. While I think that the likelihood of this happening is fairly small (although this course of action would be equally advisable if things got a lot worse on the right wing), they are clearly not advocating to leave the country in order to avoid being “called out”.
Lastly, I sincerely hope that all of the downvotes are for failing to comply with the commenting guidlines of “Aim to explain, not persuade, Try to be clear, on-topic, and kind; and Approach disagreements with curiosity” and not because of your opinions.