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I don't think you should conflate diversity of opinions with allowing incitement to murder or violence. Come on: plenty of countries have anti-incitement legis
by eli_gottlieb 10y ago
I don't think you should conflate diversity of opinions with allowing incitement to murder or violence. Come on: plenty of countries have anti-incitement legislation, so it's not impossible to draw a distinction between having an idea and trying to kill someone.
Personally, I'm with the poster above. The kinds of people now billing themselves as (let's quote him) a "Dangerous Faggot" are promoting an ideology of hatred and extermination. You are welcome to read their books and their websites: that's what's there. They want a war to separate the pure from the unclean, and having lost branches off my family tree in the Holocaust, I don't want them spreading their ideology while also holding state power.
We've all seen the Blues Brothers scene about the neo-Nazi parade, and we all know that our society tolerates even those horrifyingly murderous differences of opinion. However, when you're the ally of a sitting government, the standard really should be higher.
I held controversial events and helped bring in controversial speakers when I was in undergrad. I worked with the College Republicans, God help me, on some of those. People staged walk-outs and protests about events I helped to put on. However, I wasn't anything like a neo-Nazi, and I was not paid to be a fellow-traveler of the sitting government at the time.
- Chris2048 10y ago> The kinds of people now billing themselves as (let's quote him) a "Dangerous Faggot" are promoting an ideology of hatred and extermination Can you clarify? I've seen plenty hate directed at Milo. > in the Holocaust > neo-Nazi parade Still talking about Milo? "Don't conflate diversity of opinions with allowing incitement to murder or violence" you said, but this seems exactly what you are doing by comparing Milo to a murderous, violent regime.