If I had a major take away from covid- one of them would be that I would avoid making common cause with discriminatory people while trying to uphold some finer point of freedom.
You seem like a person who tries to go by logic so let me outline a principle I heard that changed my thought process.
It's the concept of negative liberty vs positive liberty. Freedom from vs freedom to.
"Freedom from" is not having some one coerce you. Don't tread on me
"Freedom to" is expanding one's capabilities- for example, no human has a natural ability to fly- but today this is something society works together to provide freedom of movement.
To me the person who discriminates reduces human autonomy by curtailing another person's freedom to.
As you have observed the vast majority of people who engage in such behaviors do not care at all about freedom-its entirely selfish and not in good faith. "Cancel culture" is a "fafo" situation that many people had coming.
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