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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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It's the politics, and the siloing as a result.
Anything politics related is incredibly toxic. I've received death threats for having the wrong political opinions.
Maybe don't go around expunging your weirdo transphobia, hate against Muslims and refugees, and you won't encounter as much toxicity.
Lots of people think "free speech" means they can say anything they want and everyone has to pretend it's a rational well thought opinion...
Their version of "free speech" ends when they stop speaking, and they want to force everyone to listen to it and not call them a dumbass or bigot.
It's that low empathy thing.
They want free speech for themselves but not anyone that disagrees with them.
Not to mention social media is private corporations. Like, if you go to Walmart and start screaming about how birds aren't real, Walmart don't have to let you stand there and scream all you want. They can just make you leave. Which is the equivalent of banning.
It's always the 'phobes that have the biggest hard-ons for free speech. I wonder why that is.
Until there's a book about gay penguins in a library.
Expunging? Doesn't that mean to get rid of?
Ah yeah I'm afraid we don't take the high road anymore. It's not worked. Probably because "the libs" have realised that y'all don't have a better nature to appeal to.
(And something tells me you're projecting)
I have received a death threat for having opinions about medical conditions, so... it's just sort of how it works talking to the public on the internet. People who work in retail may now and then receive death threats for serving coffee.