I think a lot of dorks have this unconscious idea in their heads I call "legitimacy of the first word".
Basically, if I express an opinion out of the blue, on my own, not in response to anything, that has a certain purity to it as my pure opinion and therefore is MORE protected by free speech than any response. So someone saying "I hate black people" is a legitimate statement, you saying "that opinion is horrible" has less legitimacy because in a secondary opinion in response to mine so has less free speech protection.
Actually this isn't even subconscious for everyone, I remember some GGers outright saying this was how he viewed things on some debate forum on Reddit. That's actually how I formulated this.
You know what I never say? I never say that someone is entitled to their opinion. I never say it because it goes without saying, and it’s only ever said for the purposes of though-termination.
I think a lot of
dorks have this unconscious idea in their heads I call "legitimacy of the first word".
Basically, if I express an opinion out of the blue, on my own, not in response to anything, that has a certain purity to it as my pure opinion and therefore is MORE protected by free speech than any response. So someone saying "I hate black people" is a legitimate statement, you saying "that opinion is horrible" has less legitimacy because in a secondary opinion in response to mine so has less free speech protection.
Actually this isn't even subconscious for everyone, I remember some GGers outright saying this was how he viewed things on some debate forum on Reddit. That's actually how I formulated this.
You know what I never say? I never say that someone is entitled to their opinion. I never say it because it goes without saying, and it’s only ever said for the purposes of though-termination.