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What Scott Adams objects to is what all supremacists object to, which is the existence of other people and their ability to form conclusions apart from his own will, based on readily available evidence.
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It’s almost gotten to be boring, the degree to which people believe that what they refer to as “free speech” should not only allow them to say whatever they want (which it does), but should also prevent other people from understanding them to be the sort of person who says those things.
✏️ Everyone can have free speech, but you have to accept that people who hear your speech exist and can draw their own conclusions and enact their own consequences. Free speech doesn’t mean free pass. 🔗 View Highlight
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That’s a fundamental right? To speak without being shamed or shunned? To be able to say anything without being understood as somebody who said it? No matter what is said? I don’t know about you, but I get shamed for the things I say all the time, from supremacists and bigots, from people whose criticism I desire and from whose company I hope to be shunned. I would be ashamed to hold beliefs they would approve of. They may mischaracterize me, but they understand me very well. And I crave their understanding. I want them to know exactly what I think of them. That’s what the shunning is for.