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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoForFlinching" data-source="post: 3551904" data-attributes="member: 24500">It's a curious thing. I remember our generation around the turn of the century being much different. We started the 'woke' trend that zoomers latched onto, and they went so full-tard with it, millennials started back towards center and the more conservative side of things as we matured past their tardiness.I think a lot of our issues as Americans stem from a lack of relevant education on the hottest topics. I remember the days before I owned guns. I didn't come from a family that was pro or anti gun. It literally never came up. I remember watching columbine happen live on TV at 16. In all of the conversations that followed, to a person that has literally zero clue about the topic of guns, it was logical that banning guns would prevent another tragedy to happen. I still wasn't pro or anti gun in that thought process, just answering the problem with half the equation. It wasn't until I met my hetero life partner and huge 2A bestie that I started to see the other half of the issue, and ultimately realized that guns don't kill people, criminals do.To be relevantly back on point, I don't think the real threat to censorship is the limiting of one opinion over the other. Most homes and social circles have been that way through human history. The core problem is when given the chance, people these days don't talk to each other. Instead, we tend to talk at each other. We don't hear each other, we listen long enough to respond. Just look at most of the threads here... We, as a species, have forgotten how to converse and it's the fault of social media. For example, Facebook makes it really easy for anyone to blind themselves from any thought that they don't share. You can simply just unfollow, hide, unlike, and block any person or thought you don't like. Seems like a really handy tool for the powers that be to further drive people apart. That even extends to forums like this one. We all have one constitutional thing in common, a love for firearms and freedom, yet there still exists an ignore button to help those who use it remain unchallenged in their beliefs.I'll be the first to admit it, I've used the ignore function here, mostly to limit a newbs reach to me in the classifieds. I probably appear on a bunch of ignore lists too. It's a useful tool but it's a double edged Trojan sword. I still remain optimistic that censorship from big tech might be a good thing. As beliefs become more isolated in the various communities, eventually, like we see here so often, the great liberal collectives will eventually be without a common enemy, turn on each other, and start eating their own. It's human nature.</blockquote>

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