Let me explain the question:

If fox news and religious propaganda are exactly that, propaganda, then they are victims.

If, however, every person is free to listen to what they want and then rant against liberals, migrants, Muslims, Arabs, trans, gays, atheists, you name it, then they are just gullible.

I’d have more patience for a victim than a gullible person.

Everybody is free to believe what they want to believe. What I don’t get is why they have to stir things up and why they believe they are the only ones getting it and everyone else is dumb, woke, a communist or is going to hell. Why can’t they keep their opinions to themselves?

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    6 months ago

    Why can’t they keep their opinions to themselves?

    Freedom of speech?

    “Why don’t you keep your non cis het stuff to yourself” is something I hear often from that side. We should be better than that

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      Freedom of speech guarantees the federal government won’t be able to mete out punishment for speech. It does not mean that anyone can say whatever, wherever, whenever. Social consequences for speech are fair game, as long as those consequences don’t themselves rise to misdemeanor or crime.