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1. insick+1m[view] [source] 2020-07-07 16:10:17
>>tosh+(OP)
> resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting.

I get it. This is aimed at left-wing people who think their side can do no evil and thus proceed to censor any disagreement. But it's still funny to me that this whole thing needs to be preceded with 'the right is bad, but believe it or not, people on the left might do some bad things too', as if any side has a monopoly on virtue and goodness.

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2. gamesw+Rr[view] [source] 2020-07-07 16:45:19
>>insick+1m
Would you at least entertain the possibility that one of the sides could, at the moment, be a bit worse than the other?
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3. oh_sig+7K[view] [source] 2020-07-07 18:04:17
>>gamesw+Rr
That wasn't the question. If cancer is the deadliest disease, that doesn't mean we can't talk about the obesity epidemic(or vice versa depending on the actual stats, I'm just making a general point).

Imagine if, every time someone wanted to talk about helping end the obesity epidemic, many other people chimed in about how dare you talk about obesity when cancer still exists. And the only way you could make a point about obesity is to put a disclaimer that cancer is totally worse than obesity.

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