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sc94597 said:

curl-6 said:

I mean let's not pretend the alt left didn't make companies fire people by threatening to ruin their business, or coerced people to conform or be bullied off the internet, doxed, ostracized by family and friends, given death threats, etc.

Again there is a clear difference between threatening to disassociate from a business by not purchasing from it and telling other people to not purchase from it and threatening to use legal and/or physical force against somebody. If that isn't clear, I don't think we're going to agree on this subject.

The company Target's revenue plummeting because black people have stopped shopping there because of their new policies on DEI is not the same thing as Trump (or one of his sycophants) specifically telling the FCC to target Jimmy Kimmel or otherwise it will face a legal battle and lose its license to do business. Black people have a right to shop wherever they want for whichever reasons they want, and to tell people whether or not they should shop their according to shared values. Trump doesn't have a right to target specific institutions and individuals to only speak what he wishes them to speak and nothing else. 

I think we're actually in agreement as far as this being troubling government overreach, but yeah I think we're just gonna have to disagree on the rest.