• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    For conservatives, words don’t have meanings anymore.

    They never really did, I think what allowed them to start breaking through out of that prison of social pressure was when we all stopped socializing and connecting. They started finding they could get a form of social support in atomized realms, while the rest of us just said “let them stay over there, we can’t ban them all, at least there they’re contained.

    I really want to ask them back in those early days when they were debating banning forums and subreddits related to sexism and racism, if they think “containment” is different from “empowerment” now.