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by rsynnott 1270 days ago
I mean, I think you’ll find that Henry Ford is dead.

In general, “past, extremely dead, person was awful; this excuses the current awful person” is _not_ a great argument. It also seems to be a fairly new invention; I’ve only really seen it in the last decade.

Not even going to address the free speech thing, except to say that you must be using a very 1984 “war is peace” sort of definition there…