The Lone Alliance wrote:Nilokeras wrote:
Have you actually talked to a real leftist? They get banned from platforms like Twitter all the time for much more spurious reasons.
That's again what I mean.
They get banned because their speech threatens the status quo. The definition of what is accepted speech is speech that doesn't actually change anything.
There's a reason why some kinds of hate speech are more accepted than other, that's because if the first form of hate speech has no possibility of becoming reality the powers that be allow it. Or they allow it because they believe the ones spreading the hate speech have no agency and never will thus they will never be a threat to the powers that be.
Leftism is a threat to the status quo so it gets silenced.
Hard Rightism is a threat to the status quo so it gets silenced.
People filled with hate but too hopped up on issues to ever unite with anyone? Not a threat.
The dynamic isn't quite that equal. A lot of hay has been made about the relative inattention of law enforcement and security agencies' towards rightist organizing and views, for example. 'Censorship' of the right and the scourge of 'political correctness' is a favorite topic of editorials in the newspapers of record and on national television. Republican congressmen dragged tech CEOs in front of committees to demand an explanation for why their posts weren't getting as much engagement as they wanted. The left, as evidenced by that single article on the subject, has much fewer avenues of recourse and can have significantly higher stakes to its 'silencing'.