Personally, I've long found you rather superhuman in showing kindness and tolerance to COMPLETE FUCKING ASSHOLES. (I love the mute and block buttons -- the bane of those who believe we owe them our attention, which, sorry, buttknuckles, we do not.)
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Indeed, Helen is incredibly generous to people who are being total shits to her.
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See -- I'm not the only one who notices this! It was one of the first things I noticed -- beyond how rational her arguments are and how balanced a thinker she is. ("Holyfuck, she's repeatedly kind to COMPLETE FUCKING IDIOTS!")
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Free speech is: being allowed to speak. Muting is: not having to listen. Blocking is: choosing not to allow people to read what you write. We mute whenever we turn off the radio. Impact on free speech: 0. We block whenever we write privately, eg diary. Impact on free speech: 0.
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Level of hypocrisy required for muting or blocking: 0. IQ required for believing blocking is censorship: 0.
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It's been repeats so many times I don't get how some are still struggling with it: Freedom of speech ≠ Right to an audience.
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You’re one of the good ones Helen and I have learned a lot from you. Some people are idiots. Here’s something cute to distract from the idiots:pic.twitter.com/t8iMC7vedB
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Free speech means you get to say what you want. Not that other people are forced to listen.
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Well... they are? Not that you are obligated to listen, read or give them the time of day, or that they are in fact correct to do so- they are not. I'm wagering the blocks aren't for mere disagreement.
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