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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I am not strangely tolerant of articles calling for military suppression of protests.
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I'll leave to the audience to decide whether you are equally tolerant of all threats to free speech, be it a hippie on Twitter or a US Senator urging that the military suppress protests. I guess I missed the part where you told everyone that the New York Times should be giving op-ed space to the lefty critics of the Harper's letter.
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Re the empirical thing, are you serious? Loads of public figures and media people are being silenced or forced to walk back uncontroversial statements. Just today, Bari Weiss quit the NYTimes under duress. Look it up.
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I said, who is being silenced, and you say Bari Weiss? Whatever is happening with her, she is not being "silenced." She just wrote a book that some people really liked and some people really did not like. But not for the pandemic, she would have been on an international book tour this spring, something you can read about on her web site, next to her press clips. Clearly you are using "silenced" as a euphemism for something else.
