Re:On Being Disappeared
by rodgerd on Sunday March 27, 2022 @08:05PM
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1. You're a tankie (in which case, good riddance).
2. You're an anti-Western contrarian.
3. You've got sound criticisms of the US, NATO, etc, and haven't thought about how you can end up a useful idiot (see also: Ed Snowden).
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None of these are good arguments for blocking/deplatforming.
"Being a useful idiot" or a "contrarian" is subjective. And don't Western democracies, the US foremost, congratulate themselves on always allowing contrarian points of view? It's in their DNA... allegedly.
A useful idiot? He is an idiot only if you consider heroic acts that reveal unjust violations of the rights to privacy and protection from unwarranted searches as well as the sabotage of public standards and the infiltration of their organization bodies as "idiotic". If anything he showed his loyalty to the residents of America and to a lesser extend to these of Europe.