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Can we please stop comparing treatment of gays and treatment of nazi's like they're some kind of equivalent? Gay people from most accounts were born that way, a
by 24gttghh 9y ago
Can we please stop comparing treatment of gays and treatment of nazi's like they're some kind of equivalent? Gay people from most accounts were born that way, and just want to remain being alive and gay. Nazi's should be given no safe harbor, as they want to opress and/or kill gay people along with everyone else who don't want nazi's to have power.
- melling 9y ago"If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
- 24gttghh 9y agoI do not believe in free expression to promote/commit violence.
- splintercell 9y agoI don't think you understand 'freedom of speech', when you start saying 'I believe in freedom of speech for only X kind of speech, because the other kind abhorrent'.
- 24gttghh 9y agoI didn't say anything about freedom of speech. I do not believe nazi's or any other group have any right to promote hate and violence against others.
- averagewall 9y agoChoice vs born-with-it isn't a valid reason. If science discovered a way to change your sexuality, would you be OK discriminating against gays after-all? Religion is also protected and nobody is born with a particular religion. Country of birth is something that people are born with but we heavily discriminate against that - a Syrian can't just get the plane to America and go set up home there. You Americans will almost unanimously agree to stop him for no other reason than an accident of birth.
- 24gttghh 9y agoNice strawman. We should be able to discriminate against those who seek to discriminate in the ultimate (ie deny nazi's/violent religious extremists/radical communists/etc a platform to promote discrimination/violence).