I think this is overblown. Most people do have reasons for what they believe.

I know everyone hates it when people “both sides” things these days, but one thing I do see both sides having in common is a refusal to honestly engage with and comprehend the other position. This doesn’t mean agreeing. It means understanding what someone believes and how they might have gotten there.

Where the echo chambers and other things that you mention do come in is in reinforcing that dynamic, in reinforcing each side seeing only a straw man version of the other.

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Words can and do cause a lot of damage, up to and including destroying a nation. But in the US, we're supposed to be tough enough and Constitution-loving enough to handle it.

But I wouldn't bet any money on us, given what I've seen in the last 10 years.

It's simple, there is no limit on what someone can say until they should be shot in public. That's what the justice system is for.

And yeah of course it's ironic what he said about the 2nd amendment, but I don't think he'd change his answer if someone asked him about if HE was shot and killed.

I don't like Kirk, I'm a democrat, but I think the left is pretty deranged at the moment. They have a way of changing the definition of of terrible things (Nazi, racist, facist), and labeling all convervatives those things, which is a great way to dehumanize people. Which leads to... murder.

I didn't say cyberbullying doesn't exist, but still--it's protected speech. People have to learn to deal with opinions/offensive words and not be whiny baby snowflakes. You seriously need to read a history book about the first amendment. And even still, the platform they're on is free to ban them.... so take it up with those platforms. Not the government like a pro-censor weirdo.

>It was words that caused the January 6th riots.

You're seriously uninformed. You need to understand the difference between protected and unprotected speech (incitement to violent like 'shoot that person' etc.). While you may not like what they said, it was protected speech.

Babies like you are ruining the country by trying to desensitize everything and make the country in a rubber room for mentally ill snowflakes. Society can't progress if you can hold unpopular and offensive ideas and debate them. You're one of those pro-censorship, anti-first amendment babies who would throw it all away so they can be coddled and infantilized.

>It was words that caused the January 6th riots. It was words that caused the salem witch trials. And I bet it was words that gave the shooter the idea that murdering Kirk was a good idea. If words don't affect you, yuu're definetly have a mental condition.

Just had to come back and laugh at this. Yes words are the problem, cut their tongues out! We'll all be mutes so people can't use words to hurt people. We need word control!