Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:35PM
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The government isn't an entity with its own independent will; the US public broadly voted in officials that put in place those policies. Leftists who openly identified as such faced all sorts of problems doing business even without government intervention.
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Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
by joshuamorton on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:50PM
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Hollywood blacklists, the most famous example from the red scare, only began after HUAC subpoenaed and held people in contempt.
Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:11PM
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You're just repeating the same invalid argument. Go and look up the history of widespread small scale anti-lefist incidents in that era that occurred before the HUAC existed.
Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
by joshuamorton on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:21PM
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The onus is on you to provide examples. Most of what I know of, and what I can find documented, was government sanctioned or under (implied) threat of government retaliation.
Please cite examples of these widespread small scale, grassroots anti-leftist incidents.