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Re:At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics... by notyourday on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:17PM (#15179199)
> Well, to offer one clear example of harm, we have Nazis openly marching in the streets and arguing for racial cleansing of the US. As someone of Jewish decent, I find that pretty directly threatening.

Could I maybe inquire why Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Che who wiped out a lot more people than Hitler and whose images ( especially Che ) show up quite prominently on T-shirts worn by people on the coasts do not trigger the same kind of hysteria?

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Re:At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics... by pizza on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @07:14PM (#15179860)
The key heuristic is the acceleration of murders over time. But the perception of foreign leaders has to do with the amount of insurance domestic interests are willing to pay to preserve the justification of their mandate.
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