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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by ThrowawayR2 on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:15PM (#21548836)
As an old school liberal, it pains me to see these activists described as "liberal". They don't even believe in freedom of speech for pity's sake, formerly a hallmark of being far right.

Call them progressives, call them identity politics advocates, but whatever they are, they are not liberals. Don't lump us in with them.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by dredmorbius on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:23PM (#21548899)
The case of Classic Liberals opposing universal freedom of speech (originally largely aimed at "papists", a/k/a the Catholic Church, ~1600 - ~1800), is not entirely novel.

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.

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