• @SoupBrick@pawb.social
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    10 days ago

    I mean, their position falls apart when you ask them what they think about the college students being oppressed for protesting.

    They do not care about free speech. They care about experiencing social consequences when using hate speech.

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      1210 days ago

      Yes. And it’s just hypocrisy all the way down: otherwise, as you say, we wouldn’t hear anything negative about the left exercising right to protest.

      On top of r/conservative is a post about “the algorithm” flooding someone’s feed with news about US protests. Of course, the response wasn’t “hey great! Look at all those people exercising their right to free speech!”. Instead, it’s just bitching and claims of fake news (and no understanding that there really may be significant protests right now – just automatically, they must be false). There is no logic for people who can no longer discern facts from opinions.