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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by titzer on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:32PM (#25750169)
> If Rosa Parks didn't like sitting in the back of the bus,

Buses are run by governments. And Rosa Parks wasn't advocating throwing molotov cocktails at bus drivers, she sat in the wrong damn seat in an act of civil disobedience.

> If GMC wouldn't sell her a bus,

It'd be great if GMC would refuse selling vehicles to insurrectionist militias, IMHO.

Your analogies aren't doing any good here.

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by thewindowmovie5 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:28PM (#25751198)
Not only that, Rosa Parks was discriminated because of who she was while the MAGA goons and the platform they used are receiving backlash for behaving like pos and refusing to moderate the violent posts. The parent poster is deliberately muddying the water with the twisted analogy.
Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by zanellato19 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:56PM (#25751621)
This is the most important part. We need to defend people from being discriminated for who they are, but things they do is fair game.
Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by anaerobicover on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:33PM (#25752215)
More specifically, for the things they do towards the destruction of our democratic society.
Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by tim44 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:45PM (#25752381)
> Rosa Parks wasn't advocating throwing molotov cocktails at bus drivers, she sat in the wrong damn seat in an act of civil disobedience.

Agreed. But because some others didn't take her approach to civils rights, but were violent, why should she be canceled? It would be interesting to ask people at that time in history whether they saw her actions as violence or inciting violence. I bet the answer is a big ol' yes. I bet even many thought it was inciting the overthrow society/government.

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by peytn on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:43PM (#25750355)
I believe the bus was operated by National City Lines. Could be wrong.
Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by inscionent on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:15PM (#25750933)
"The Montgomery City Lines is sorry if anyone expects us to be exempt from any state or city law ... [w]e are sorry that the colored people blame us for any state or city ordinance which we didn't have passed."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_City_Lines

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by peytn on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:07PM (#25753667)
They were free to not do business with the city of Montgomery, if I’m following the logic of some of today’s discussion correctly.
Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by throwawaygulf on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:15PM (#25750935)
>Buses are run by governments.

Not the one Rosa Parks was on.

>And Rosa Parks wasn't advocating throwing molotov cocktails

Rosa Parks no, but other Black groups most definitely. Same with Parler, not everyone was advocating violence.

>It'd be great if GMC would refuse selling vehicles to insurrectionist militias, IMHO.

Yup, stop selling them to the Black insurrectionist militias (codeword for any Black political group), would have been great.

>Your analogies aren't doing any good here.

They're pretty great honestly, describes the general idea well.