Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "The Open Source Leftist Strategy: Silence and Bully" video.
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Mastodon is like a book or game. It's something either published, or with a platform. So this raises a different issue. When you distribute a publication or put a voice on a platform, guess what? Not everyone is going to have the same views or hold the same values as you. A publication has every right to choose whoever they want to publish. We already have publications like the Jacobin, which takes its name from political club during the French Revolution that became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence from mid-1793 to mid-1794 and helped play a factor in the rise of Robespierre. Christians have all sorts of publications like the Christian Science Monitor, or the National Catholic Register. And, guess what? There are Christians that may read the Jacobin, and atheists that might read the Christian publications mentioned. As a conservative Christian, I can't stop an atheist from reading a Christian publication, nor would I want to. Even a Satanist can read a Bible. Albeit I'd hope they might convert after doing so. But I can't just go over and take the Bible from the Satanist and declare it not for him, and that he and all other Satanists must be banned from reading the Bible. Maybe I'm not like the Bible thumper of old, who themselves were a form of woke, and we learned not to follow their bigotry. Ironically, the left is going the way of the old stereotypical Bible thumping, book burning, Satanic Panic fundamentalist Christian they still whine about when it comes to their narrative about that era. But apparently the left learned to be woke bigots.
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A baker makes money off a cake. He is offering a service, though doesn't necessarily have to bake a cake, and could give any reason for doing so, such as already being booked up on orders, or because they've already closed and are not taking any more orders. However, by civil rights law, the refusal cannot be made in the case of discrimination against religion, race, creed, and added in later gender or sexual orientation. I get the baker's issue, but, I also don't like smoking, yet I still have to sell cigarettes if I work at a store that sells them, which most grocery stores do. Can there be a religious exemption? Maybe, but we don't have that yet, so we still have to follow the law until such time as it might be changed. You can protest it, but it's still the law of the land.
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@FatLingon - As a conservative, I try to drown out most of the hyperbole. as for SUSE, because they are actively banning people, that's when I'd draw the line with a distro. I'm sure with Arch, Mabox, and Garuda that someone using or developing these distros may not like my politics, and that's fine. I can agree to disagree. I just find it ironic they lump all conservatives as fascists when they themselves are big in the politics and tech corporations, and most conservatives aren't and have been weeded out because of politics. That's why Rumble, Locals, and Oysee, among many other alternative media came to exist. They're saying we shouldn't exist, like Hitler didn't want certain people to exist, but we conservatives are the baddies? I think there may come a time after this era that might be like post WWII, when people wonder how they got so extreme and became monsters for a cause that really wasn't worth being so worked up and warped over. until then, hopefully the left doesn't start a whole new holocaust. Big they are saying things openly, in both government and industries that are worrisome.
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