This is about treating someone who advocates genocide as if they were merely holding an opinion rather than promoting a prescription for murderous mass action.

This is about treating someone who advocates genocide as if they were merely holding an opinion rather than promoting a prescription for murderous mass action. I don't think this is about someone befriending someone else who merely has a different, detestable point of view. This is palpably worse. This is about befriending someone who advocates for withholding the right to live -- in a sense, for taking away the right of millions to have any point of view. I think that's a big difference. I'm saddened to learn that she was Aaron Swartz's romantic interest. And I'm saddened that no comments here seem to have noticed that this is simply not about a mere disagreement.