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Old 10-16-2016, 01:23 PM   #2605
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Originally Posted by Makarov View Post
Disagreeing with someone isn't "advocating against free speech". This seems to be a favourite trope of the right wing lately. No one has argued that the state ought to sanction you somehow for your views.
"Freedom of speech" is a principle. It is distinct from, and broader than, the first amendment in the USA or s.2(b) of the Charter up here.

Suggesting that being a male feminist is the only position that's "tolerable" in society is nakedly authoritarian, particularly when no one can define what "feminist" means anymore, and if they attempt to it's usually a motte and bailey position.

Illuminaughty is pretty obviously a nut, and for that reason, is far less eyebrow-raising to me than some of the positions articulated in here by otherwise ostensibly sane people.
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