Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
Yes. One can pick out a marginalized group, repeatedly accuse them of all sorts of outlandish things, introduce (and perhaps pass) legislation that attacks their very existence, use the group as a focus point to rally your supporters, and then...

... look shocked, shocked I tell you, that some crazy went off and decided that because the group was abducting Christian children and sacrificing them to demons in the basement of a pizza parlor that it was time to act...

And if anyone complains, why, they're just trying to shut down free speech, right? Probably they too are enemies of society....

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Everyone can tell anyone else to STFU as far as I’m concerned, whatever. You are not the boss of me, to continue the playground rhetoric of sticks and stones.

It’s when the government gets involved that we all need to pay attention. The Democratic Party operatives in the white House have been flirting with that for years. Frankly, I’m shocked that Trump didn’t make a big effort to tamp down free speech, specifically anti-Donald speech. Maybe he did and we just don’t know about it. It seems right up Donald Trump’s alley.