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by closeparen 1924 days ago
Racist caricatures are right down the middle of any definition of hate speech I’ve seen.

The production of an instant moral consensus - so that everyone, all at once, decides freely that it would be incompatible with their values to do what they were doing yesterday - is an exercise of a kind of power. “It’s just private entities doing what they want to do” doesn’t mitigate that.