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People on the left are constantly deplatformed every day - along with being surveilled, policed, imprisoned, gaslit, threatened, and murdered.
If you try to actually fight for worker’s rights, the environment, or against the greed of the rich, that quickly brings you into conflict with every force that’s designed to protect capital and the profits of the ruling class.
Environmental activists are murdered all the time. Striking workers are gunned down by police. Black and socialist organisers are taken to secret prisons, or killed while they sleep.
The right / liberals don’t face this threat as they are not a threat to profits, but are instead enforcers of capitalism.
Yet it’s the right wing / conservative / liberal voices who the capitalist media will devote all their resources to if a leftist dares to deplatform a literal Nazi.
In the case of Trump, that wasn’t any sort of leftist deplatforming. That was liberals who no longer saw him as profitable after they had profited from platforming him for years and moved onto the next grift. He was done. And just for good measure in an effort to appease the “other side” social media companies have been banning posts and shutting down accounts of anarchists and other actual leftists since then.
That's exactly my point.
Hope I didn’t come off as disagreeing with you.
Not at all!