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For those watching the Kershnar thing unfold and are wondering about why the right, who have taken up the cause of free speech, are apparantly trying to get Dr. Kershnar fired.
I will explain very breifly:
For those watching the Kershnar thing unfold and are wondering about why the right, who have taken up the cause of free speech, are apparantly trying to get Dr. Kershnar fired.
I will explain very breifly:
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The answer is, in short, children.
The liberal right is, for the most part, willing to tolerate all kinds of speech to varying degrees...unless they think that it harms children.
If they think what someone says will directly harm their kids they absolutely lose their minds.
The answer is, in short, children.
The liberal right is, for the most part, willing to tolerate all kinds of speech to varying degrees...unless they think that it harms children.
If they think what someone says will directly harm their kids they absolutely lose their minds.
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It isn't that they go literally crazy, it's that if they think you are harming their child, or are advocating for harming their child, they will turn on you like a pack of jackels.
They do not care about whatever highminded reasons you might have for your behaviour.....
It isn't that they go literally crazy, it's that if they think you are harming their child, or are advocating for harming their child, they will turn on you like a pack of jackels.
They do not care about whatever highminded reasons you might have for your behaviour.....
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You do not, under amy circumstances, harm the children.
Let me show you an example of what I mean:
A few years ago a guy named Milo Yainnopolous was an up and coming conservative pundit/content creator.
He had worked with breitbart and had made a name for himself...
You do not, under amy circumstances, harm the children.
Let me show you an example of what I mean:
A few years ago a guy named Milo Yainnopolous was an up and coming conservative pundit/content creator.
He had worked with breitbart and had made a name for himself...
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In the online world.
He was caustic, sarcastic, and gay.
Most people were surprised at his assent given that he was gay (and conservatives are supposedly homophobes) and sarcastic, and acted like a liberal, and so on and so fourth.
Milo managed to say all kinds of rude...
In the online world.
He was caustic, sarcastic, and gay.
Most people were surprised at his assent given that he was gay (and conservatives are supposedly homophobes) and sarcastic, and acted like a liberal, and so on and so fourth.
Milo managed to say all kinds of rude...
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lewd, and crude sexual things and not lose any support among his young conservative base.
Until this video came out:
lewd, and crude sexual things and not lose any support among his young conservative base.
Until this video came out:
https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/833485040944156673?s=20&t=ycVqjyr35eBIXGAuoooRBw
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I am not going to litigate or parse to the context of his remarks exactly because the context did not matter.
Within a week of that video coming out Milo was out at Breitbart, got cancelled from CPAC, and was persona non- grata in conservative circles.
In other words...
I am not going to litigate or parse to the context of his remarks exactly because the context did not matter.
Within a week of that video coming out Milo was out at Breitbart, got cancelled from CPAC, and was persona non- grata in conservative circles.
In other words...
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He got cancelled.
Completely.
And quickly.
This is what the Kershnar thing is about.
Conservatives do not care whether or not Kershnar is playing Devil's advocate they don't care that he's veing like socrates and plato. They do not care that he is very smart...
He got cancelled.
Completely.
And quickly.
This is what the Kershnar thing is about.
Conservatives do not care whether or not Kershnar is playing Devil's advocate they don't care that he's veing like socrates and plato. They do not care that he is very smart...
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They see him defending pedophilia, and so they do not care about what his reasons are. They are going to go after him like a pack of jackels.
The right will defend it's children, and they will do so at any cost.
That is why this is such a firestorm in the right...
They see him defending pedophilia, and so they do not care about what his reasons are. They are going to go after him like a pack of jackels.
The right will defend it's children, and they will do so at any cost.
That is why this is such a firestorm in the right...
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I am not going to comment on the case itself because
1. I am not toally sure if Kershnar was playing devil's advocate or making his claims "for the sake of argument."
2. The point of this thread is not the merits of Kershnars work or tenure. The point is to explain...
I am not going to comment on the case itself because
1. I am not toally sure if Kershnar was playing devil's advocate or making his claims "for the sake of argument."
2. The point of this thread is not the merits of Kershnars work or tenure. The point is to explain...
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Why this particular professor has, seemingly out of nowhere, become the lightning rod for conservatice wrath online for the past week.
I hope that helps everyone get it.
Why this particular professor has, seemingly out of nowhere, become the lightning rod for conservatice wrath online for the past week.
I hope that helps everyone get it.
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