I did not remove them, and am not going to argue with @AmberV in public. Your concern should be addressed to him.
I was specifically talking about attacks on a person’s basic humanity. Not their right to disagree, their right to exist. I don’t feel obligated to tolerate that kind of attack in the interests of “fairness.”
“Comrade Brezhnev, is it true that you collect political jokes?” – “Yes” – “And how many have you collected so far?” – “Three and a half labor camps.”
In the Soviet Union, telling political jokes could be regarded as a type of extreme sport: according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code), “anti-Soviet propaganda” was a potentially capital offense.
A judge walks out of his chambers laughing his head off. A colleague approaches him and asks why he is laughing. “I just heard the funniest joke in the world!” “Well, go ahead, tell me!” says the other judge. “I can’t – I just gave someone ten years for it!”
“Who built the White Sea Canal?” – “The left bank was built by those who told the jokes, and the right bank by those who listened.”
Which is exactly why it’s hilarious for people who should know better to pretend that Scott Adams getting a few complaints is even remotely comparable. Even if that were the reason his strips were pulled – it wasn’t – there’s a significant difference between telling every media outlet that will listen that you’re a persecuted ‘anti-woke’ martyr and being shipped off to Siberia or getting a bullet in the head.
Do we know he did that? I mean, if he did that’s pretty dang “courageous”.
I’ve done a bit more digging. Apparently he did not directly claim to be a martyr (in this case) but a number of right-wing outlets – including apparently the Daily Mail – jumped to that conclusion.
Come to expect nothing better from the Mail or some refer to it for past support of Hitler and their current far-right views the Daily Heil.
“Frederick T. Birchall, chief European correspondent of THE NEW YORK TIMES, told a nation-wide radio audience, in an address rebroadcast yesterday from Berlin, that there was no cause for general alarm in the ascendency to power of Adolf Hitler and his brown-shirted Nazis.” https://www.nytimes.com/1933/03/13/archives/reviews-nazi-rise-in-talk-over-radio-ft-birchall-new-york-times.html
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I don’t know about how much calming it was the cookie and the pigeons, but it sure made me crave the bejesus out of some freshly homemade baked chocolate cookies 
… it looks mighty good 