Whilst I agree bigotry is almost always from the right, a small but vocal minority have far too much power and take pleasure in shouting people down (often attacking their own from the left) who don’t measure up to their standards. Judging people who lived hundreds of years ago, cancelling Abraham Lincoln. Judging people who lived in harsher conditions and harsher times from the comfort of an air conditioned Starbucks whilst drinking a £4 cup of coffee on their £1000 smartphones is ludicrous. Lots of filmmakers have got into hot water for not measuring up to ridiculously high standards of SJW’s on Twitter. Spielberg went out of his way to make the new West Side Story very inclusive and diverse in terms of casting, but the female lead was half Polish and half Colombian and not Puerto Rican and got grief for it. Lin Manuel Miranda (the man who made the founding fathers black and Hispanic in Hamilton) had to apologise for not including enough Afro-Latinx actors even though the cast was very diverse. There’s countless articles about college professors being fired or disciplined for saying things their fragile toddlers, sorry students didn’t want to hear. You should read the Coddling of the American Mind. Written by two liberal college professors in New York who explain when the culture of safety, safe spaces, trigger warnings started to permeate college campuses circa 2013. They’re right in the middle of it, they’re not right wing bigots. They blame the parents and the universities for raising them and indulging them but they also come up with practical solutions. That generation is now going out into the workplace and is pushing this ideology on their employers.
I completely agree the right is essentially not saveable in America,and only want to hear facts that are in lin but both sides are tribal e with their agenda. For example, if you say that white people were slaves, that doesn’t really jive with the narrative on the left. Most civilisations have been slaves but you’d think it was exclusively a white problem if you listen to some.
Again, I don’t think any reasonable person expects freedom from consequences. Is there anything inherently wrong with a right wing person owning a social network site like Twitter? Ideally it would be owned by a centrist, but I’d say the previous owners were left leaning to say the least. JK Rowling gets attacked constantly as does anyone who likes, retweets or agrees with her but Twitter don’t do anywhere near enough to remove those trolls. But if someone on the right attacks someone, chances are they would get banned. What I would like to see is more work done to ensure people can’t hide behind pseudonyms and fake names. Take steps to ensure users have to identify themselves so they have to own everything they like, tweet or retweet.
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