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This is a very good idea, and the measurement of success in these important educational efforts must be: "after this mandatory education that teaches you critical thinking and how to not just be obedient, do you now finally have the correct opionions?"

If the student doesn't, he/she/xir should be deplatformed for life.

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This is the most extreme hot take I’ve ever read on hacker news. You made me verbally laugh. No one should ever be “deplatformed for life”. What utter garbage.

It’s sarcasm. The poster is trying to point out that what’s being proposed is forced ideology. Re-education camps as it were.

It certainly doesn't read as sarcasm to me. But if it is, then that's good.

A bit too harsh? Surely they could be granted a second chance by sending them to be educated again.

I read GP as sarcastic.. “think critically and agree with us or de-platformed for life”

At the very least we should require that people learn the basic tenets of modern science: that war is peace, slavery is freedom and ignorance is power. That would go a long way towards curbing extremism.

ROTFL! I read your grandparent comment and said to myself "this feels just like a George Orwell dystopia"...

Well, the lefties just realized it was satire, so they memoryholed my original comment. As long as they thought I was being serious they upvoted like crazy.

I hope I still, before I'm banned, managed to demonstrate that it is nigh impossible to tell the difference between the most extreme satirical absurdly totalitarian opinion, and actual "progressive" thought these days. And now they have both chambers.

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