The anti-imperial, Communist-leaning, anti-war Left has been de-platformed a lot through the ages though. So its been biting that segment of the Left for a long long time.
>The anti-imperial, Communist-leaning, anti-war Left
If I'm interpreting correctly, either you mean the group of people who are all of those things, or anyone on the left who is one or more of those things.
If you mean the former, then you mean a very small group of people. Very small. No one is a communist these days. People who are aren't even necessarily anti-war, or anti-imperial. The group of people is so small it's not even really worth commenting on for such a macro issue
If you mean the latter, then you're lumping a very large, very diverse group of people together. So diverse that there's very little point commenting on their collective views
I meant various strains of anti-war/Communist-leaning (specifically,Marx)/anti-imperial views across countries through the late 1800s to the late 20th century have been deplatformed (be it newspaper bans or other restrictions on speech). As for not mentioning this sentence in a macro-issue, my point is to rather look at it in a time-frame of a century or more, and argue that "deplatforming" has hit multiple shades of the political spectrum in the long run.
If people on the opposite side of the spectrum start acting like trump, I’ll advocate for them to be deplatformed, too. Until then, Trump’s blog is where he belongs.
