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A comment on Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt. Parent comment

Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by whatshisface on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @04:37PM (#18765160)
Peterson, Sam Harris and whoever else is involved would probably agree with you, they are now talking about setting up a competitor to Patreon. These people are real financial heavyweights and could probably do it.
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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by voidpointercast on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @07:18PM (#18766109)
And that should be the end of it. This whole debate is a nonissue if there exists an open market. If the ideas are big enough that discriminating against them disenfranchises a fair number of people, these people should have no trouble setting up an alternative that caters to their select 'views'.
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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by whatshisface on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @09:06PM (#18766692)
>If the ideas are big enough that discriminating against them disenfranchises a fair number of people, these people should have no trouble setting up an alternative that caters to their select 'views'.

At the level of abstraction you're working on, you could say the same thing about LGBTQ or any other minority.

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