I wish more people understood this.
> There is danger in the current moment. It comes not from horn-helmeted idiots and racist scumbags who paraded through the Capitol Building for an hour, but from those who wish to turn that despicable incident into the founding myth of a new era of woke authoritarianism.
When I think about this (reading the article) it always has dumbfounded me how much more intelligent and thoughtful the founding fathers and many other intellectuals of the 1700's were then our current corporate CEO's and lifelong politicians.
However, the more I think about it, the more I realize in the 1700's they lived a life of dealing with people so they had to work together and it forced them to see peoples motives so they could more easily call out the basic human behaviors. Most times conflict then was not resolved in a court or kept on an Internet forum but through physical means, and when war or fighting is the conflict resolution method you learn to avoid it as the costs are so much greater. Today, so much of our society sits behind a keyboard and spews vitriol and hatred just to see what happens, and then polarizes people behind false walls and narratives, destroying what people strived so hard to put together over 200 years ago.
Sadly in the US, I think the lack of studying history for what it was and the reasons the founders fought for the laws and protections we have has doomed us to repeat so many of the same mistakes of times prior. Many of our citizens, especially those who have grown up in the digital age, need to relearn why freedom is delicate and applying rules to thee but not to me is a recipe for immense societal pain. They need to see past Trump who is a symptom of the deeper problem, and instead of focusing on silencing a voice or opinion they don't like, they need to learn to protect it because their voice will be next as the cycle will spin faster and faster until it spins off axis.
To be noted, on this website there is also another article with a title/header that illustrate well the issue:
> Why is Twitter censoring Trump, but not the CCP?
> No one should be censored. But the tech firm’s double standards are absurd.
Fuck your feelings, fascists.
I just "vouch" for the entry that saved it from it being flagged.
I'm very curious to why it was flagged in the first place, because I don't see anything reprehensible inside it or that would be off topic related to HN, but maybe I missed something?
Edit to myself: Someone told me that it could be because of this sentence of the article that could be considered as fake news:
> "With the push of a button in their vast temples to technology, the new capitalist oligarchs of Silicon Valley have prevented a man who won the second largest vote in the history of the American republic just two months ago"
Me I understood that it meant that Trump still had numerous votes at the latest election as finishing in the second place.
I'm unsure if the author wrote the sentence badly or is sadly on the conspiracy side, but still the rest of article is on point. And the best thing to do about such a thing is to discuss it and discuss messages of people that could have wrong information.