[bluefirebrand]

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sir-this-is-a-wendys

is the meme OP was referring to.

I do like your observation that "only extremists feel comfortable making certain obvious true statements"

I'm going to have to think on that one. It seems to me that is a very bad place for public discourse to be in.

[alexb_]

There is a large body of thought that encourages censorship of ideas which might bring people to undesirable conclusions. It feeds in on itself, and this is what happens.

[_9xrb]

It's incredible how far the Overton window has moved in only a decade. This nonpartisan Channel 4 fact-check on race and crime matches numerous criteria for "hate speech" under Reddit's current policies:

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-amer...

Channel 4 is considered a fact-based, center-left news outlet:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/channel-4-news-uk/

[origin_path]

Channel 4 is definitely not considered fact based or center left; it's really very left wing indeed and is about as "fact based" as as the rest of the media (i.e. not very).

It's very telling that the top two most popular videos on Channel 4 News' YouTube channel are:

1. A weather man correctly pronouncing the name of the Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

2. Jordan Peterson being interviewed by a C4 journalist. After it was uploaded it was described by one pundit as the most disastrous interview for the interviewer they'd ever seen. It has nearly 40 million views, mostly because the interviewer is so absurdly ideologically biased against Peterson and is clearly trying to paint him as absolute evil, yet he handles it (relatively) so well. At one point the interviewer actually becomes so confused she literally runs out of words and doesn't know what to say, leading Peterson to say, "hah, I gotcha" and she replies "yes, yes you have got me".