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Originally Posted by lio45
The opposite can happen too, though: someone unhinged, having purely imaginary "voices in their head", hearing a dog whistle that doesn't exist and never existed.
At first sight, both are perfectly possible.
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And this excuse is often used to discredit legitimate dog whistle situations, and then neither side ever gets to be taken seriously because everything is possible and nothing is valid. Yay, discourse!
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Originally Posted by Spocket
Meh...you can't win in today's political climate.
If you take a reasoned approach you get called a racist for not explicitly attacking what other people view as racist (even though they may not objectively be)
If you don't take a reasoned approach, you're an idiot and both sides will call you either a racist or a race-traitor. There's really only one way to win and that's to not play. Of course, if you don't play, you lose by default. Case in point: Lock the thread because the discussion hasn't gone the way some people wanted it to go (in a thread with a topic that invites disagreement and offensive (to some) views)
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I feel like that's the goal. Destroy the concept of discourse entirely to get everyone to shut up and allow the leadership to do whatever it wants.
Cancelling is so overused (and spreads to everyone the original cancelled person interacts with causing this cascade of cancellation) and platforming/deplatform is a weird concept that seems to always backfire but this is the state of discussion these days.