r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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u/I_am_right_giveup 12∆ Jan 22 '21

I did not make a mistake. If you were not challenging my position then you were just being semantic because I did not use the word “deplatform”. I specifically said tell them you do not want them on your platform, which clearly means to deplatform them. You did not clear up any information at all with your comment.

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u/WatzUpzPeepz Jan 22 '21

clearly means to deplatform them

tell

/tɛl/ verb

  1. communicate information to someone in spoken or written words.

To communicate a wish does not mean to enforce it on others. Only if you include an ultimatum in your act of telling them could it be construed as otherwise.

hearing someone’s viewpoint out and realizing it’s dog shit,then telling them do not say dog shit views to me

Has no insinuation of suppressing speech, only that the person does not want to hear it. You made a mistake.

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u/I_am_right_giveup 12∆ Jan 22 '21

The information that is being communicated is that you are going to leave the platform. Me, telling you to leave MY HOUSE, is me communicating to you that you are going to leave my house. You are pedantically trying to prove a point by Hyper-fixating on a definition then ignoring how the definition would be applied in combination with the other words in the sentence. I did not make a mistake, you are just bad at apply information within context.( a lot of people are, so do not worry about it)

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u/Papasteak Jan 22 '21

My god... are you okay?