Call them progressives, call them identity politics advocates, but whatever they are, they are not liberals. Don't lump us in with them.
It's a power relation, and one which recognises that a sufficiently empowered majority (or oppressive, empowered, minority) can itself be inimicable with, or at least effectively portrayed as same, free expression.
The story of free expression is more complex than virtually all treatments acknowledge.
That was always the MO of right-wing extremists. But after Trump's election is when people whose views were once considered moderate-left to moderate-right suddenly became "far-right", "alt-right", or "Nazis".
I think it stems from a mentality that someone else pointed out: not wanting to discuss the matter is tacit support for the status quo. A.k.a. "if you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem." A.k.a. "Until they are free they are part of the System, and that System is the enemy." If you aren't anti-racist or anti-sexist enough, you must be racist or sexist.
You replied that bitwize was supporting white nationalists and repeating a propaganda narrative.
Hmm... I'd say you just proved bitwize's point.
How can we resist racism/sexism without a basis in knowledge? And if we have that basis in knowledge, how can we verify if verification is itself racist/sexist?
This is the person who led the movement to successfully deplatform Charles Max Wood, btw.
The Liberals are a _centrist_ party, not a leftist one. That's the NDP.