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As someone whose family the nazi's took great pains to eradicate ... I'd like to come out strongly in favor of not suppressing their speech. If for no other re
by hpcjoe 9y ago
As someone whose family the nazi's took great pains to eradicate ... I'd like to come out strongly in favor of not suppressing their speech. If for no other reason, than idiots tend to self-identify, and I really don't want to have to start searching for whom the next group of idiots are that I need to worry about wanting to off me and my family.
This is a little hyperbolic. Though the rest is not.
I've seen this up close and personal, in business, in personal life. I regularly dealt with, had to work with such assholes in SV startups, VCs. I was taught by such assholes in primary/secondary school, undergrad and grad school, smiling as they spewed their vile invectives. I see comments on otherwise respectable news and information sites pop up with well worn and well known calumnies and blood libels, not to mention tired stereotypes which have no bearing on reality.
These are the things that the nazis (won't capitalize those bastards) say out loud, whilst the asswipes who may still think them keep close to their vest. If the nazis are gone, I have to worry about whom else harbors these particularly stupid views.
I want to know who I need to warn my offspring about. Telling sh!t-for-brains to keep their yaps shut because they are idiots, complicates my search algorithms.
So, no. Please don't have them shut up. Assholes tend to self-identify by opening their mouths. I want to know exactly who they are.