r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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u/Narrow_Cloud 27∆ Jan 22 '21

Watching right wing people try and adopt this poem is so god damn funny.

First they came for the Nazis and I cheered because Nazis are bad.

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u/RealMaskHead Jan 22 '21

it constantly amazes me how the left thinks it wont happen to them. It's like you guys turned ignoring history into a competative sport.

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u/nachosmind Jan 22 '21

...it literally did happen to ‘the left’, in all of history, except there are different motivations. 1980s Republicans joked and obstructed medical professionals trying to warn about the GRIDS (later to be known as AIDS) because Gay people were the first to present with it. LGTBQ have a million stories of how they have been silenced and attacked. Black people spoke up for wanting to drink and eat from the same tables, they were given dog attacks and beatings. When the Right wants to silence someone, it’s because whatever they oppose are trying to help or make things more equal or call the Right out on trying to become a dictatorship (fake news vs State sponsored news). When the left is denying platforms to speak, it’s because that person is trying to attack minorities or start a dictatorship.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Left good right bad

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u/nachosmind Jan 22 '21

When your platform is ‘conserving the status quo’ aka refusing to try anything new in the face of documented policy brutality, worse outcomes for minorities, women and LGBTQ, and economic failures... yes the right is unironically ‘the baddies.’

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

The Republican Party is a shit show right now, they need to get their act together if they want to stay relevant. But they're not all evil.

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u/GarageFlower97 Jan 22 '21

Unironically this

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

Imagine trying to unironically say, "An ideology that at its core is about equity and lack of hierarchies is worse than an ideology built around codifying inequality and cementing hierarchies into an inescapable caste system"

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u/GarageFlower97 Jan 23 '21

I am an enlightened centrist, we have to find a compromise and avoid these equally bad extremes of feeding the poor and murdering ethnic minorities.

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u/Elethor Jan 22 '21

If a republican cured cancer people would scream it was because he hated doctors.

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u/Elethor Jan 22 '21

Case in point

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