I, uh, was just playing around with you actually. 'Cause you mentioned how "easily offended" people are, so I was trying to—

The error was so close to perfection, too: troll for clicks, tick for clocks, tuck for… cucks?

Can I briefly share a "libertarian" perspective with you? I know it's not traditionally popular (and especially around here), but…

I don't know what kind of conversation, never mind reconciliation, is
even possible now, with how locked down and easily offended so many
people are.

Yes, cancel the Oscars, absolutely — that will strike a blow for freedom, and surely not backfire, driving the majority of Americans further towards Trump by making his opposition seem crazy and joyless. That would not happen; this is politically sound activism.

That's why God invented CGI.

And are there no Faye Dunaways or Glenn Closeses?

Fuck the haters. Take care of yourself first and foremost and then worry about the world's shit.

Holocaust denial and white supremacy are abhorrent. I trust we would agree about that. Perhaps it does not strike you in the same way, but I consider "shouting down" dangerous ideas to be in itself a dangerous idea.

I completely agree. I'd like to see more debate, generally — and I mean actual, moderated debate.

I know. And he's an asshole. The people who do that kind of thing historically, in my opinion, have been assholes. Coincidentally? Maybe, but I don't think so.

I completely agree. And if I owned a publishing house, I wouldn't publish bigots. I couldn't live with myself if I did. I don't know where to draw the line, which I suspect is personal and context dependent… (If I was Chancellor at a University, I think my sense of responsibility would be different; I would be…

It's a complex issue. On the one hand, you're absolutely right — this sort of thing should absolutely be legal in a free marketplace. (Let's note though that Donald Trump is no exponent of a free market. He is an avowed enemy of the free market and an authoritarian statist.)

What is Trumping wrong with bringing Trump up once in a Trump? It's Trump like you have to Trump on the Trumping Trumpicles.

Yes, okay, if you're being logical about things…

Wouldn't that be nice?

No need to apologize for sharing information, lol. I appreciate it. (Even in caps.)

This is something I think about every time Morissette comes up. (Because every time Morissette comes up, "Ironic" comes up, too, and then we get to talk about how the situations described in it aren't actually ironic. We're all just memes, now.)

Sej-anus.

I expect you'd know far better than I, but…