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Most topics people don't feel comfortable discussing in polite society, don't directly relate to important political and legal debates. Also they won't get you cancelled for having bad beliefs and thus being an evil person. Maybe there is a world 100 years ago where you could get cancelled for talking about, say, inappropriate sexual topics, but we had a pretty good run of not having this sort of thing and I personally would like to have it back.

Trump is maybe a limited threat in a sense of, I don't know, censoring people who insult him personally. Left-wing people in Europe have aggressively done this as well, but they also have deeper ambitions of censorship of misinformation, hate speech, et cetera, and left-wing Americans are not shy about advancing these ideas.

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