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29athrowaway on Jan 15, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Freedom of Speech (2019)

Those books were written in a very different historic context. I have higher expectations for a 20th century scholar than people that lived 2000 to 1000 years ago.

Chris2048 on Jan 15, 2021 [–]

so context matter? So who judges the context?

I'd point out there are plenty who'd kill in the name of someone who lived 100s of years ago - so what is you metric here: ban b/c of the consequences, or ban to punish the author?

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