"You are making me uncomfortable"

The point is that everyone needs to mind their own business, you’re not the mask police.

No, I will silently comply to the extent the law requires. You know, like a grown ass adult who knows how to fucking act.

I don't see why. I go out of my way to be courteous and of minimal inconvenience to others I encounter in the world, and expect nothing less in return.

Alright, tough guy.

Except on Wordforge, right?

There is minimal inconvenience in scrolling or averting your eyes, comrade.

The cultural right has been canceling things that make them uncomfortable for decades. It's just that because they held the power, they were able to dress it up in code words like "community standards" and "traditional family values." See @Nova's thread on the subject for numerous examples.

What's laughable is that many anti-maskers say that mask-wearers have been brainwashed.

Meanwhile:

Oh, that's okay, then. Revenge is important. It's pretty much what politics is based on these days anyway.

I can't ever take Tucker Carlson seriously. Aside from being a grade 'A' twit, he looks like a confused dog that just figured out how to fart.

It was really nice not getting any sort of cold this past winter. I can't help but think social distancing and wearing a mask helped out on that. It would be nice if that became more common, and wearing a mask in the cold winter is much more pleasant than in the hot summer.

There is minimal inconvenience to put my balls in your mouth.

Until I have to pick them out of my teeth like sesame seeds.

I've had one cold within the last several years. I got that one cold the day I got my first COVID vaccination. That said this whole mask thing can't end soon enough for me.
I suffer from hearing loss, and having people speaking all muffled through a mask makes communication that much worse.

It's not a question of supposed revenge. You are claiming that the left invented the sentiment that "this makes me uncomfortable" and that led to canceling lectures by conservative speakers.

That is factually wrong. The examples of the right "canceling" things because they were made uncomfortable, from reefer madness to rock n' roll as the devil's music to communist blacklists predate the sort of left "cancellation" you're talking about.

What?

Sesaseemy balls in your mouth

I really don't see this. Sure, the people on the left have called for protesting or even cancelling events. But it is almost always because the people involved promote something that is demonstrably harmful, such as racism or climate-change denial. I am not aware of any massive movements among the left to prevent people from saying or doing things that don't hurt anyone else in any way.

That has been very common among conservatives, though, for a very long time. Are you going to pretend that conservatives haven't been opposed to inter-racial marriage for a very long time? And yet that doesn't hurt anyone. Not directly, or indirectly, to any extent. It simply "makes them uncomfortable" to see honest-to-God white people with "those people" who are just barely human (if that). In the same way, conservatives have long and solidly opposed gay marriage. But whatever your personal beliefs about homosexuality, homosexuals getting married doesn't hurt anyone in any way.

People with masks being "uncomfortable" around people without masks aren't even equivalent to those without masks being uncomfortable around those who have them on. It is a demonstrable scientific fact that not wearing a mask can pose a real and measurable threat to others. But there is no possible way that I can harm someone without a mask by wearing one myself.

You are trying to set up some kind of false equivalency by saying "the left does it, too" and even "the left invented it" (your own words), but if you look at the actual factors that are opposed by each side, you can hardly find any examples at all of the left opposing something that does not hurt or threaten anyone else in any way, simply because "they don't like it". But that is what the right has been doing pretty much forever.

So yeah, trying to prevent people from doing things without there being any demonstrable risk involved, simple because it hurts the feelings of those who think otherwise, really is primarly a conservative phenomenon.

Really?

Have the religious right only recently started objecting to homosexuality?

Never tortured or hung anyone for that, surely.

How about practising other religions?

They never launched Crusades, wiped out whole populations of pagans or killed suspected witches, surely.

How about freedom of speech or expression in the arts?

No squirming discomfort during the dark ages or the Mccarthy era, not one bit. No condemning heavy metal music for being the work of the devil whatsoever.

Condemn it in all cases, or condemn it in none.

True, but hardly in fitting with your claim of going out of your way to be courteous and considerate.

Perhaps you are, but surely you see the irony of such a statement being made within the context of your WF persona? More bluntly if it is true then absolutely you have a WF persona as the two cannot otherwise be consistent with each other.

Others I encounter in the world, you illiterate fucking mongoloids. Text on a screen is nothing approaching the same as someone flipping their shit at you in real life. You have to seek out and read what I type here.

Yup, that distinction was pretty clearly acknowledged already.

You're polite to people you have to actually face. In here you feel free to let the mask slip.

No, I'm polite to people who are polite to me, and when they fail that standard all bets are off. And am I in the Polite Room or the Red Room? Also, you're the kind of smarmy queefbarnacle who thinks it's somehow better to couch your bitchy passive aggression in flowery saccharine terms, so you should go fuck yourself TWICE.

You have spot on you.

You open your arguments actively aggressive. Our passive aggression is an attempt at politeness.

Now go get laid with yourself.

WHAT?!?!?!

On the extremes.

The difference is that the extremes completely took over the GOP.

Biden is not actively seeking revenge. It's nice having a decent human being in the Presidency again.

Don't look now, but the extremes have taken over both parties, AOC wants to make a revenge list, and Biden, who used to hang with the KKK, is a sock puppet.