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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Because a lot of people either don’t know how to think for themselves or simply can’t think for themselves. Thinking for yourself isn’t necessarily encouraged nowadays and a lot of people would rather follow the mob as opposed to risk having the mob turn on them. It’s a survival instinct, really. Of course this is just Reddit and nothing truly bad can happen to us here because nothing here is really real, however this mindset has since transcended into the real world and is definitely something that we should be far more concerned about. Bullying people into changing their beliefs because you don’t personally agree with said beliefs is never alright. 

The people pushing these ideas are convinced they'll always, ALWAYS be the ones defining "hate speech/wrongthink" and on the "good" side of every issue. Authoritarianism isn't so scary when you delude yourself into the belief it'll never be used against you. 

Sorry for the wall of text, I know that’s cringe ‘round these parts.
gpt
&gt; nowadays

Like it was ever different before. I'm seeing people making arguments like it is somehow a new thing, that it came with internet, Emilys and what not - but wasn't it always the case?

People were always oppressed by status-quo in different forms throughout history. Don't like the religion? Prepare to be burned at stake by fellow villagers. Don't like the king? Prepare to be beheaded by the authorities. Don't like the revolution? Prepare to be shot in the head by the comrade. Sometimes it's the state, sometimes it's a crowd - the outcome is the same.

But also authoritarianism critique from autright? Based