NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur

Re:NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur by dcolkitt on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:06PM (#26070126)

I'm not necessarily saying this point is incorrect, but the structure of the argument bears a striking similarity to the same justification for laws against heresy and blasphemy in the time of Galileo.

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Re:NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur by marcus_holmes on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:17PM (#26070269)

This. The main things we have to decide in the next decade or so is "who gets to decide what the truth is?" and "how can we allow creative dissent from that truth?"

We have to allow people to dissent, or we will have destroyed our own civilisation.

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Re:NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur by jb775 on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:14PM (#26070226)

The shift in social discourse over the past few years helped me understand how the Salem Witch Trials came to be.

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