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pc86yesterday at 2:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

I mean, to pick what is perhaps the easiest example, wanting to abridge speech is anti-American by its very definition.

It is possible to have a thing that is anti-American. So I'm not sure what good it is to reject the term altogether.


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rickdeckardyesterday at 2:34 PM

It could e.g. be "anti-democratic" by a universal definition of democracy and civil liberties which no single country then gets to fork and redefine...

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Joker_vDyesterday at 2:38 PM

Ah, I see, it's the same as "un-American", only without being a word too onerous to use (yet) due to obvious historical implications.

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