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How ironic: A person railing against cancel culture gets cancelled by cancel culture.

Simply disagreeing with politically charged topics gets you a boot from many open source projects.

Many people that claim to want tolerance, actually want nothing less than exuberance for their own causes and have no problem painting people they disagree with as non-human, so they can harass, get them fired from their jobs or positions (canceling), and then finally silence.

This comes right out of the 'rules for radicals' playbook.

If you can't respect my freedom of speech, why should I protect yours?



> How ironic: A person railing against cancel culture gets cancelled by cancel culture.

That’s not ironic. It would be ironic if a supporter of cancel culture got canceled.


Like rain, on your wedding day, ...


>Many people that claim to want tolerance, actually want nothing less than exuberance for their own causes

This is absolutely brilliant




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