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by GeoAtreides 770 days ago
The response to potentially heavy, controversial topics should not be avoiding the discussion, nay, not even avoiding, but forbidding it. Surely we're all adults and we can engage with the arguments presented, and in the process learn something. And if the discussion becomes heated, then it becomes heated. Then some hours pass and we move on.

Having a couple of people saying: No, this should not be discussed is dystopic and illiberal.

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> illiberal

you say that like liberal is a good thing

I say it as opposed to aristocratic and authoritarian.