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by ithkuil 1855 days ago
Now with tables turned, not few people gloat when people complain getting a taste of their own medicine.

While I understand the short term gratification, I find this dangerous long term.

For all the failures of the old norms and methods, at least there was a way to formally abjure your antisocial beliefs and get accepted back into society.

Today not only we didn't yet develop such a code, but we also leave a permanent trace of our past blunders and misplaced allegeances which are now permanently associated with our identity.

Precedents of this scenario create anxiety in a lot of moderate people, most who are even agreeing with the majority of the zeitgeist.

Regular people may not be vocal about it, so we get a perception that now only KKK folks are whining about freedom of speech.