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		notsureaboutpg on July 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Four Quadrants of Conformism I also am not a fan of cancel culture or the sort of progressive Victorianism we see these days. Sure an antifa government would suck. But that's just bad manners, these are people being assassinated because the government disagrees with them.

mc32 on July 24, 2020 [–]

I wouldn’t be so optimistic. Level headed people in the French Revolution, the liberals in the Russian revolution, they had some rather horrible things happen. Done by very lucid people. You can’t say that was then. It’s hard to escape that fate.

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