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I can’t help not being offended, and “this slope is so slippery only being offended by trifles can save us” isn’t the compelling position you seem to think it is. The fact is that the slope is rarely slippery, there are often May chances to reinforce or overturn such trends in a relatively free society (which of course China isn’t). No amount of pearl-clutching is going to change that, sorry.

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I find that the opposite is the case, the slopes are so slippery that I don't think slippery slope is a real fallacy anymore. Three examples:

* In the UK and other CW countries the police now come to talk to you about your tweets or even arrest you: https://reason.com/archives/2018/09/15/britain-turns-offensi...

* After gun control in the UK knife crime soared. Now they literally have knife control:

http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/13/britains-knife-control-b...

* Twitter now bans and deletes for "learn to code".

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/learn-to-code?full=1

> this slope is so slippery only being offended by trifles can save us

Nice strawman. Chinese government censorship is not a "trifle".

> a relatively free society (which of course China isn’t)

You said it yourself.

I think you may have ignored both the post I was replying to, and the 95% of my post you didn’t chop into sentence fragments and choose to respond to.

Enlighten me as to which part of your comment I mischaracterized.

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