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> Right-wingers have lost their jobs in the US many times for far less, even when their comments were on social media accounts unrelated to the job.

You make it sound like losing one’s job for being an embarrassment to their company is a bad thing.

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They were only "an embarrassment to their company" because of the aggressive doxxing and harassing actions of people who refused to tolerate entirely reasonable statements that they happened to disagree with.

For that matter, one time someone who wasn't even noted as right wing got "cancelled" for wearing clothing with a print that some feminists found objectionable. Clothing that was gifted to him by a woman.


Many women are antifeminist, yes. They are also hypocrites as they still vote of course. Was that new information to you?

Opposing modern feminism is perfectly compatible with retaining the franchise. Not that that has anything to do with anything. There objectively was no remotely reasonable basis to object to the shirt.

Why do you talk about free speech in one place and whine and cry about free speech of others elsewhere? Who cares? Cancellation was an exercise of free speech.

> people who refused to tolerate entirely reasonable statements

Like what? have a link?


Look how he kept being cagey and vague never giving any examples and suddnely simply vanished.

Canceling is free speech and freedom of association. Why do you hate others free speech?



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