Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Wanted: recommended idealogues who — actively reject "cancel culture" — can disagree, even angrily, without making attempts to deplatform — sometimes say objectively weird stuff — make predictions that seem to bear out Left- or right- aligned, secular or religious, etc.

I don't wanna detract from the thrust of your point but do you mind if I ask you why deplatforming - not anger - is the bigger sin, here?

My guess would be: because anger is just an emotion, as natural as any other. Unless it turns into hostile action, it does no harm. I don't entirely agree, but anger by and of itself does seem like a thing that hurts less than deplatforming.

I don't necessarily think anger is a good thing, and perhaps I'm more permissive of it than I ought to be because I'm prone to it myself (regrettably). But... deplatforming attempts to control what others are allowed to hear, and that's something I'm extremely concerned about.

I take it you don't consider stochastic terrorism an actual thing then?

I do, I just don't think the concern there justifies authoritarian top-down control over information, or that the potential harms of the former outweigh the potential harms of the latter