What are these truths that you think can't be said, Paul? Given your history I'm quite they have to do with race, gender, or sexual orientation, and they are probably said routinely, only not without consequence.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1330523511534792706 …
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You don't think there were consequences for saying things that violated consensus social norms over 50 years ago? I mean, that's an astounding obviousness to history. I'm pretty sure you could self ID as communist now without half the blowback you'd get 50 years ago.
You've misunderstood me. I'm saying there was plenty you couldn't say 50 years ago in the US, and in other countries, and everywhere else at every previous time too.
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What I'm asking is whether you think there was any previous society in which there was nothing true you couldn't say, or whether you think ours is the first.
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No. And that is not the argument I am making. I am addressing your assertion that the current environment, here in 2020, has a dynamic of left leaning people censoring speech on the right.
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Do you think those things weren't said? Because they were, and protected in many quarters. Now speech is more public because everyone consumes media in some form.
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