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JF's avatar

It’s not a perfect correlation, more of a trend. I’m very familiar with left leaning people who have policed my speech, by shaming and offering “reeducation”. I was called out for saying “kill two birds with one stone”, because “sometimes what we say influences what we do”. Obviously not the same as extrajudicial killing, but the cure outweighed the “offense”.

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Sheaster's avatar

GG, I must say that what comes to mind for me are my far left cohorts who thought blowing up ski areas and pounding 60 penny nails into trees (so dangerous for lumberjacks) was a fair defense of the environment.

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R Mercer's avatar

It is a rather large step from policing your speech (which you can often ignore, anyway, TBH--especially if you are not terminally online) and

extra-judicial killing (or even a quick (probably sham) trial followed by a rapid execution w/o appeal.

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JF's avatar

This is true. And this is what I acknowledged in my remark.

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