People in a leftist bubble often cite hate speech as a valid reason for censorship.
Clearly you have no idea what left wing means, so there is no point continuing this with you.
It is really appropriate to give the power of censorship to a non governmental entity to further act as prosecutor, judge and jury?
In conclusion, it is my sincere wish that we, as Americans unite and look past the political divide. While social media and online forums are a wonderful place for discussion, of which this is a prime example, they do little to bread unity across the issues that divide us. As such, it is my hope that people opt for a break from the thump tapping and get back to the friend making…in the real world.
We agree on a lot of things even though we have our stark different views.
I’m not going to give a history lesson (for which I’m sure people are glad), but I will say that from the days of controlling the behaviour of people with periodic public executions to dissuade, or persuade people to act in a certain way (which failed over time) we eventually moved to a society where we police each other. Something so simple as parents saying ‘don’t talk with your mouth full' or ad campaigns of 'drink drive, your a bloody idiot' with peers checking the behaviours of people etc etc.. Society has changed where it is much more effective to censor each other rather than have governments do it. Religions do it, family do it, friends do it and social media moderators do it. There is less need for Governments systems to do it because people can do it better than they can.
I agree that social media and political rivalry has done a lot of harm in the US, as it has in places like Australia, France and Germany. We used to generally be moderates, but the division that has been caused has certainly caused major problems. I think radicals on the far left and the far right are the biggest threat to us.
I have never written to a politician in my life, but spurred on by some of these discussions (and your comments here are similar), this morning I wrote to my local federal member of parliament, who I voted against this last federal election in Australia. This member won her seat again and was one of the only members in the conservative (right wing) party who actually got an increased voting margin In the country, as her party was thrown out at the last election. I thanked her for her contribution and her recent involvement in going against her own party to protect the rights of LGBTQI+ people of the society, voting for an independent commission against corruption (against her party) in federal government and censuring the previous prime minister for his recent behaviour where he secretly appointed himself as minister of 5 portfolios without telling the actually ministers and misleading the country. (Yeah, right wing politics in Australia is on the nose). I got a lovely letter back from said member of parliament.
Point being that like you, we can appreciate political rivals and we should be able to have positive discussions if we just stop the partisan views and listen.
