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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I am not strangely tolerant of articles calling for military suppression of protests. I am quite unstrangely in favor of allowing such views to be aired and rejected. I am similarly in favor of allowing the idiot left to call for deplatforming as often and loudly as it likes because there is a growing backlash to it which will cure it. But that only happens if we give it more airtime and attention so people can watch it become increasingly absurd.

People are both exhausted by these strident virtue signalers and sick of them. This is leading to them being branded as crazy and frivolous. They are increasingly being mocked, and what can be mocked can be ignored. And once ignored, it disappears.

Re the empirical thing, are you serious? Loads of public figures and media people are being silenced or forced to walk back uncontroversial statements. Just today, Bari Weiss quit the NYTimes under duress. Look it up.

Taibbi is very much the exception. He’s Teflon because he has the balls to say, “Don’t give a fuck.”

“Under duress.” She’s about to get paid (with Sullivan or separately?)

You’ve fallen for the grift again.

ETA: stp