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You're not offering any arguments, just various restatements of your premise: "very bad speech must be silenced, or very bad things happen". Edit: I also think
by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
You're not offering any arguments, just various restatements of your premise: "very bad speech must be silenced, or very bad things happen".
Edit: I also think arguments should be viewed with extra skepticism when accompanied by phrases like "your brains have fallen out" or "there should be no doubt that". It's a lazy way to try and add force to your argument without putting in the logical work of doing so.
- IBM 9y agoHis argument is in his first sentence. How do you account for Germany suppressing Nazism while being an open democracy? And as far as I know, they've been successful at it. The premise of the OP is that it just creates more support for it, that doesn't seem to be the case in Germany.
- keyser2038975 9y agoAnd yet poland, which was heavily affected by the nazis and WW2 has a nationalist conservative government and austria almost elected a similar president. I'm not sure if europeans are really that much more successful. The US is simply more polarized due to the two party system and the divide between the coasts and flyover states.