When the American Booksellers Association issued an apology about a book that decried the rise of gender surgeries, it leaned into the same arguments conservatives have used to ban certain titles.
  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
    31·
    6 months ago

    But if my fellow liberals don’t stand up for freedom — for everyone — we won’t have a leg to stand on as conservatives try to tear it down. When we adopt the tools of the censor, everybody loses.

    That’s the danger: hypocritically opposing conservatives rather than doing so while firmly in the right.

    • NeuromancerOPM
      28·
      6 months ago

      Lefties will never be in the right. That’s why they are lefties.

  • uzi@lemmy.ca
    54·
    6 months ago

    No matter what side anyone is one, there must be blanket protection to express offensive views, protection to express offensive beliefs, and protection to use offensive words.

    It’s only when there’s a call to action that it is a danger, but opinions and beliefs have never harmed anyone, only actions.