Quote (Kayeto @ Nov 18 2020 04:21pm)
both sides contribute equally.
There’s no excuse for calling people any of the things I described, unless it’s true, and you have proof. Both sides did contribute, in that the right has called some people on the left communist when they were not. They should have used the term authoritarian socialist. It’s more apt.
Our failure to say, “How dare you!”, followed by a defamation suit, was the cardinal sin. We had an acute lack of courage. That’s what fear of reprisal does to public discourse. That’s what cancel culture does to public discourse. They degrade it until they destroy it.