Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink

Re:Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink by salt-thrower on Thursday November 18, 2021 @03:53PM (#29270375)

The point is not who's currently relevant, it's that people on the cultural Right complaining about cancel culture are on par with a schoolyard bully complaining about someone else bullying them. They are happy to do it when their opinions hold sway; when they can't, they whine about other people doing it.

And to be clear, I'm not taking a "both sides are equally bad" stance, I'm just describing the hypocrisy of this particular line of complaining.

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Re:Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink by ziroshima on Thursday November 18, 2021 @05:32PM (#29271475)

This selective application of values (e.g. being in favor of free speech, as long as you like what is being said) has been going on forever. We have had a system set up to account for this in the U.S., when the perceived threat to free speech was the government. That threat has become faceless mobs and private companies.

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