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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by lockhouse on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:35PM (#34985370)
Are people finally allowed to say this without fear of the cancel mob coming after them?
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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by arglebargle123 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:00PM (#34985820)
Watching Dr John Campbell in the UK receive repeated YouTube warnings for simply unpacking publicly available COVID research papers and public health statistics has been really depressing.
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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by rocket_surgeron on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:06PM (#34985960)
I keep asking for examples of victims of the cancel mob and the only replies I get are either John Stewart (who wasn't one, despite what the New York Post wants you to think) or some morally reprehensible piece of actually racist human garbage who used the lab leak hypothesis to whip up white nationalist anger.

Who was "come after" by the cancel mob?

Who was cancelled?

Criticism isn't cancellation, except to pusillanimous shitheads.

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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by _-david-_ on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:37PM (#34986463)
Dr. Li-Meng Yan was banned on Twitter for the lab leak theory. I think her account is back now though.

Do you think a Chinese born scientist is a white nationalist?

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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by acheron on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:53PM (#34986703)
Don't feed the trolls. Click on the comment time and there's a "flag" link, which is better than replying.
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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by rocket_surgeron on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:46PM (#34987306)
Who was cancelled?

Trolling is making an assertion and then running away when the handwaving doesn't work.

Asking a question isn't trolling.

Please. I'm begging you. I'm down on my hands and knees, genuflecting: who was cancelled?

My assertion is that "the woke mob" is a boogeyman made up by liars to deflect any and all criticism of their terrible positions.

Kind of like how they spread "virtue signaling" around like manure before that phrase lost its outrage generation steam.

I will 100% change my mind if anyone can provide a single person cancelled for this.

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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by rocket_surgeron on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:44PM (#34987269)
> I think her account is back now though.

https://twitter.com/DrLiMengYAN1

So... not cancelled?

I was promised cancellation...

>Do you think a Chinese born scientist is a white nationalist?

Lol looked her up, she's steve bannon's protege so who knows? Stranger things have happened.

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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by _-david-_ on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:51PM (#34987374)
She was cancelled and then uncanceled. It is impossible to meet your standards of cancellation unless you wait until the person dies to ensure they aren't uncanceled sometime in the future. That is ridiculous.

>Lol looked her up, she's steve bannon's protege so who knows? Stranger things have happened.

Are you going to make an actual argument or just say people she interacts are bad? Is she a racist, xenophobic white nationalist like you claimed? No? Then admit you were wrong.

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