I'm really confused by arguments that try to tell people that they are morally obligated to tolerate people saying bigoted stuff. They always act like we as individuals have control over some kind of "invisible hand" of the zeitgeist.
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But this ignores that 1. Backlashes are often just a lot of people disagreeing at once, and this is pretty likely if someone says "gays are evil" 2. An env where people are not allowed to form a backlash against a statement like that stifles innovation from the targeted group
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To lump together bigoted expression with ideas, he gives some examples of things that are heretical in SV because of the ability for backlash. And it's simply not true that "ideas that the government decided are too hard" are heretical and support-starved in SV.pic.twitter.com/Sr6A4YO5ML
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So in all, this is just a request for people targeted by bigotry to tone down their responses, because if people get too much negative response to "gays are evil" they might not build SpaceX.
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