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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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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?