If public health officials were biased against conservative gatherings, that's good. The entire government apparatus should be biased against racist conspiracy peddling morons
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The famously conservative coded Burning Man festival was cancelled in 2020
sep 1, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
The very idea of drawing a parallel between a political protest and a cosplay gathering is ridiculous. Yeah, the government should treat them differently... like the Constitution says it should.
sep 1, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
"I can't believe that public health officials were biased against people who didn't believe COVID was real (and also that representative government should be abolished)!" Truly terrible, what monsters
sep 1, 2025, 7:25 pm • 35 2 • view
It's actually terrible; laws should generally apply equally regardless of expressed perspectives; basic principle of free speech.
sep 1, 2025, 7:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Generally, but there are exceptions. You're living in History buddy, time to accept it
sep 1, 2025, 7:39 pm • 5 0 • view
That shouldn't come to resemble looking for excuses to avoid decent principles of political pluralism.
sep 1, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
The paradox of tolerance is applicable and all political actors should know about it.
sep 1, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Our traditions, laws, and judicial history on free speech are solid guidelines for navigating most of this from a legal perspective. We permit hate speech. With few exceptions we tolerate all kinds of speech even for hateful groups and groups that would end free speech. This tolerance is good.
sep 1, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Judicial history? The justice system is now dead.
sep 1, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Damaged, under threat, sure. What we should want is to ensure and reaffirm pluralistic, free speech friendly norms, not to engage in abuses ourselves.
sep 1, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Germany has specific laws against Nazism. They aren't some totalitarian hellscape because of it.
sep 1, 2025, 11:46 pm • 1 0 • view
They are bad on free speech though.
sep 2, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
And then those hate groups get power and eliminate that free speech. Yanno like now how the admin is bullying universities and corpos into compliance? We must adjust our tolerance to ensure these people never see daylight again.
sep 1, 2025, 9:27 pm • 2 0 • view
"Let's eliminate free speech because we're worried about someone else eliminating free speech" is a pretty cursed line of reasoning. My answer to that is no; anyone opposed to free speech is part of the problem.
sep 1, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
This is how I learn that I'm blocked by Tom Nichols. Oh, well. No loss.
sep 1, 2025, 7:57 pm • 2 0 • view