Limiting replies is such a wormy thing for an elected official to do. I only do it because I don’t want joke punch-ups, not because people will remind me that I was implicit in mob violence & 5 deaths earlier in the week
I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood, the child of Greatest Generartion Democrat working class parents, in a Northeastern American City and guess what? I still ended up being a racist! Because that’s who was around me. IF YOU’RE WHITE PLEASE KEEP READING!
I grew up occasionally enjoying/employing racial slurs in jokes. As I got older and got out in the world more I stopped doing this and became uncomfortable when anyone else did. And people sure did! When it was just me & a fellow white person.
I eventually had black friends. I began to become a little bit more conscious of how the world affected them through listening to them. But soooooo little. A smidge, maybe.
What an interesting point of view, different from my own. Perhaps and exchange of ideas would build a bridge between us. Perhaps we’ll BOTH learn something? This seems like a worthy endeavor!
Free speech means not deplatforming people just because they have different political views than I do or because I just “don’t like it!” Ideas like this may not be my ideas, but people should hear them because they are ideas, and every idea is equal and good and just an opinion!
What is the harm in listening to ideas like this or giving them a platform? We shouldn’t be afraid of new thought! Ideas like this only SEEM familiar and that everyone has head them before! These ideas DESERVE a platform!