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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by regularfry on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:23PM (#25693211)
To pretend that there are arguments that it is not socially acceptable to promote is to pretend that the Overton window doesn't exist. Who does that help? People outside it.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by jessedhillon on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:31PM (#25693369)
You can't think of any ideas which began well outside of the Overton window, but today are commonly accepted as true?
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by regularfry on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:57PM (#25693860)
On the contrary. But it's not reasonable to expect to bring them up without consequences, and specifically in the case of Popper's paradox, those consequences are healthy and those specific ideas should remain unacceptable.
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