• Billiam
    305 months ago
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    The most critical component of “free speech” to a right-winger isn’t just the ability to say whatever they want with no repercussions, it’s also that an audience has to be forced to listen to them.

    There are plenty of shithole places on the Internet where they can spout their transphobic, Great Replacement anti-Semitic shit all day long, but that’s not good enough for them. They need a “lib” to be triggered.

    • TheHarpyEagle
      85 months ago
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      Jordan Peterson is the absolute king of thinking that he deserves and audience but also no one is allowed to leave a mean comment or he’ll quit Twitter again.

      • MrVilliamEnglish
        75 months ago
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        That’s the guy who cries about nothing, motivates incels to hate women and minorities, and goes on tirades about wanting humans to behave like lobsters or whatever, right? Utter detriment to the human species.

      • Flying Squid
        25 months ago
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        The guy found a way to get famous by lying that a law would put him personally in prison if he called someone “he” instead of “she. He’s the biggest attention whore out there.

    • captainlezbian
      65 months ago
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      Exactly, it’s not enough to stand outside a college campus and spout bigotry, they must be given a podium and an audience must attend