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Good! I'm tired of online platforms giving bad actors special treatment because their conspiracy theories and misinformation are so closely nestled with a poli

Good! I'm tired of online platforms giving bad actors special treatment because their conspiracy theories and misinformation are so closely nestled with a political ideology. Enough is enough and Twitter has no obligation to be a mouthpiece for calls for violence that are splitting our country apart.

mam2 6y ago
Honesly some people are going to say the exact same in the opposite side for supporting gay marriage / trans young people. I'm definetely not on Bannon's side but you guys in america could do with a little "step back" other it's going to get even more polarized and there will really be 2 americas which may end up in even more violence. It's like Hilary's "deplorables".. just try to understand the other side's point before insulting it.
- mcphage 6y ago
  > Honesly some people are going to say the exact same in the opposite side for supporting gay marriage / trans young people. Are you unable to distinguish between supporting gay marriage and encouraging violence? If you need some help, consider the outcomes. In one of them, people end up married. In the other, people end up dead. Does one of those sound better than the other, perhaps?
  - mam2 6y ago
    The opponents of gay marriage will tell you that the consequences of gay marriage is adoption, and that raising a child without both parents is a bigger violence for this child than any sort of physical violence. I disagree personally with this point of view, but you really need to start understanding the opposite point of view to understand that at the end of the day, both parties feel they fight a legitimate cause...
    - dragonwriter 6y ago
      > The opponents of gay marriage will tell you that the consequences of gay marriage is adoption No, while the opponents of same-sex marriage also oppose adoption by same-sex couples, by far the vast majority of them will argue that the primary basis for opposition is either that marriage is intended to produce offspring and same-sex marriage is defective in that regard or that marriage is a divine institution instituted for heterosexuality and that extending it same-sex couples defies the divine plan, improperly endorses homosexuality, and pollutes society with sin independently of whether or not this is further compounded by allowing such couples to adopt.
    - mcphage 6y ago
      > The opponents of gay marriage will tell you that the consequences of gay marriage is adoption, and that raising a child without both parents is a bigger violence for this child than any sort of physical violence. I don't even know what the first one means—"the consequence of gay marriage is adoption"? > both parties feel they fight a legitimate cause I agree that both parties feel like their cause is legitimate, but it does not follow that both causes are equally legitimate. For instance, if you remember a few years back, Cheerios had a commercial with an interracial couple, and they got a lot of complaints about it. I don't think anybody said that the people complaining didn't feel passionately that their cause was legitimate. However, that fact does not mean that others need to treat that cause as equal in legitimacy to the cause that people of different races may marry, and those marriages may be displayed in commercials. And absolutely, there are cases where both sides are legitimate. But we do not need to treat all cases like that, even if some are. We don't need to be full-on cultural relativists.

mam2 6y ago

Honesly some people are going to say the exact same in the opposite side for supporting gay marriage / trans young people. I'm definetely not on Bannon's side but you guys in america could do with a little "step back" other it's going to get even more polarized and there will really be 2 americas which may end up in even more violence. It's like Hilary's "deplorables".. just try to understand the other side's point before insulting it.

mcphage 6y ago
> Honesly some people are going to say the exact same in the opposite side for supporting gay marriage / trans young people. Are you unable to distinguish between supporting gay marriage and encouraging violence? If you need some help, consider the outcomes. In one of them, people end up married. In the other, people end up dead. Does one of those sound better than the other, perhaps?
- mam2 6y ago
  The opponents of gay marriage will tell you that the consequences of gay marriage is adoption, and that raising a child without both parents is a bigger violence for this child than any sort of physical violence. I disagree personally with this point of view, but you really need to start understanding the opposite point of view to understand that at the end of the day, both parties feel they fight a legitimate cause...
  - dragonwriter 6y ago
    > The opponents of gay marriage will tell you that the consequences of gay marriage is adoption No, while the opponents of same-sex marriage also oppose adoption by same-sex couples, by far the vast majority of them will argue that the primary basis for opposition is either that marriage is intended to produce offspring and same-sex marriage is defective in that regard or that marriage is a divine institution instituted for heterosexuality and that extending it same-sex couples defies the divine plan, improperly endorses homosexuality, and pollutes society with sin independently of whether or not this is further compounded by allowing such couples to adopt.
  - mcphage 6y ago
    > The opponents of gay marriage will tell you that the consequences of gay marriage is adoption, and that raising a child without both parents is a bigger violence for this child than any sort of physical violence. I don't even know what the first one means—"the consequence of gay marriage is adoption"? > both parties feel they fight a legitimate cause I agree that both parties feel like their cause is legitimate, but it does not follow that both causes are equally legitimate. For instance, if you remember a few years back, Cheerios had a commercial with an interracial couple, and they got a lot of complaints about it. I don't think anybody said that the people complaining didn't feel passionately that their cause was legitimate. However, that fact does not mean that others need to treat that cause as equal in legitimacy to the cause that people of different races may marry, and those marriages may be displayed in commercials. And absolutely, there are cases where both sides are legitimate. But we do not need to treat all cases like that, even if some are. We don't need to be full-on cultural relativists.