Another brief one but after watching some republican blowhard on CNN go on about how he's so concerned with political violence and how we need to do something about it, I want to introduce people to concern trolling.
Concern trolling is common online debate tactic relevant to the trump administration's current pitch to crack down on free speech, they go on about how they're oh so concerned about political violence and how this is THE issue that we need to address and that we need to support some authoritarian measure to stop it from happening. It's typically used in a dishonest or disingenuous way to push an agenda that doesn't need to be passed. The goal is to get people concerned over a fake issue so that they trade their civil liberties for more security. I thought we learned from previous efforts to do this in the 2000s not to listen to this stuff, but here we are with 2020 Republicans pushing this to crack down on free speech. No one should listen to them. And we should push back. No we shouldn't give up our freedom of speech for more security. That's what fascists try to make us do. And the modern republican party is a fascist party.
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