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Originally Posted by fjtorres
To be honest, the RWA was in an untenable position.
They couldn't deal with the complaint openly without starting a political fight and they couldn't ignore the complaints. They tried to deal with it privately and it still exploded on them.
It is simply public life in 2020. Absolutists and kneejerk reactions all over.
No measured thinking, no live and let live.
And it is not going to get any better.
This is an object lesson most of all, to get off the big "social media" platforms.
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Well, watching social media implode wouldn't hurt my feelings, either. It's done nothing but provide ridiculous weight to the opinions of the ill-informed and tweenagers. How could it possibly have gone in any other direction?
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
-- Frederick Douglass
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