I remember years ago having this conversation with my sisters when they started expressing sympathy for the usual SJW talking-points. In regards to freedom speech all I said was, “If actual white, male supremacists got into government and started arresting people on the basis of hate speech, would you be okay with that?”
You could cut the silence that followed with a butter-knife.
It’s a bit of an uphill battle. They’re more like normies than SJW’s, and will just believe whatever the Left is saying next because the propaganda is relentless. Repeat the lie enough times and will people will start to think it’s true. And if I talk about politics too much, they tune out because they’re just not that interested. Someone in my family has to keep making the argument, though; my dad is in his 50’s, but he doesn’t understand any of it. He thinks it won’t affect mainstream politics and thus won’t affect us. Thing is, ten years ago, shit like Critical Race Theory would only be discussed on arse-ends of the Internet like tumblr. Now we have mainstream politicians seriously debating it within parliament, senate and congressional chambers, across most of the developed world. Where do you think we’ll be in another ten years? Deep shit if the Left gets their way, that’s what.
I don’t think Twitter and Facebook started as a social experiment, but with the launch of the iphone and ipad in the early 2010’s normies had easier Internet access than ever before. That’s when they started flooding into both platforms and they just became cancerous. It wouldn’t be long before the elite took notice, so they made an unholy pact with tech companies once they realized they could shape public discourse in a way they couldn’t before, and basically drive everyone insane.
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