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Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by Thorentis on Thursday July 02, 2020 @08:56PM (#23719908)
No, I was making a point with a bit more depth to it than that. If the point you're trying to make is that both sides are guilty of mob cancel culture, then you don't need to. Nobody here is pretending or claiming otherwise. Your comment is just another example of jumping into partisan politics for absolutely no reason.
Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by buboard on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:02PM (#23719954)
sorry i would claim otherwise. Nobody has been cancelled for expressing leftwing-or extreme leftwing- ideas

it may detract from your central point, but it also explanis why one side of the spectrum won't be willing to contribute to an armistice

Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by Thorentis on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:10PM (#23720017)
Well yes, if you did some analysis of which opinions people have lost their jobs over, and which causes must you support openly if you don't want to be seen as backwards, or which things have people apologised for saying after posting a Tweet, then I'm sure it would be clear that one side dominates societal discourse far more than the other.
Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by MagnumOpus on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:30AM (#23722478)
It is super obvious that far more people have been fired for championing leftist opinions and causes (living wages, workers' safety, unions) than for being republican/racist/islamophobic.

(Though I am not sure that the right wing dominates societal discourse like you say.)

Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by gguevaraa on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:13PM (#23720038)
Not sure if this fits the bill but here's a story[0].

[0]: https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/harvard-grad-claira-janover-fi...

Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by donw on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:34PM (#23720202)
I'm not sure that really fits.

Her anger is the problem.

She was going to work with Deloitte, where she will represent her organization in front of clients that regularly sign off on invoices that resemble less a major purchase and more the GDP of a small country.

Imagine that you have a business.

Would you hire such an angry, callous, and impulsive person to represent you in front of clients?

Unless the name of your business starts with "B" and ends with "ank of America", the answer is probably "no".

Folks on the right are saying that she called for stabbing conservatives.

I don't think that's true.

She was using metaphor -- comparing being stabbed to having a paper cut -- and just did it exceedingly poorly.

The metaphor doesn't become clear unless you watch until the end of the video, and I don't know a lot of people, conservative or liberal, that are all that interested in watching the entirety of a video where they are being offered a complementary stabbing, just so that they can get the punchline.

If you post a video of you start off by repeating, over and over, "I am going to $VERB you", then don't be surprised when people interpret your message as, "I am going to $VERB you".

Finally: imagine that we flip her political orientation, and that she recored an angry video where she used a metaphor in which she talks about shooting BLM supporters.

She would likely be in jail.

There is a political difference in how both threats and actual violence are treated in the United States, and it favors the Left.

Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by buboard on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:22PM (#23720105)
thats not even an extreme leftist opinion, that's terrorism.
Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by cma on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:44PM (#23720284)
Here's an example: Kapernick.
Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by prepend on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:58PM (#23720645)
Isn’t he making more from his ads and speaking and board seats?
Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:26PM (#23720130)
> "Nobody has been cancelled for expressing leftwing-or extreme leftwing- ideas"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism seem like the obvious counterexamples.

Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:13PM (#23720037)
Sure they have. There was a story making the rounds just today about a girl losing a Deloitte offer for a pro-BLM post, and FIRE can tell you that even on campus left-wing cancellations aren't unheard of.