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> Giving airtime or lending legitimacy to holocaust deniers, ethnostate-supporting white nationalists Pointing to the most extreme end of political spectrum as
by manfredo 9y ago
> Giving airtime or lending legitimacy to holocaust deniers, ethnostate-supporting white nationalists
Pointing to the most extreme end of political spectrum as justification for silencing or ostracizing the people everywhere on that half of the spectrum is both disingenuous and terrible for the political atmosphere. Imagine the reversed situation, someone stated "our company should tolerate liberal views" and I responded by saying, "but what about the mass starvation of the Great Leap Forward, and the genocide perpetrated against the Ukrainians by the USSR?" It would be absurd, which is also how I regard this response.
Tolerating conservative views is no more an endorsement of Nazis and the holocaust than tolerating liberal views is an endorsement of the Khmer Rouge, the Holodmor, etc. Silicon Valley would be a better place without this kind of rhetoric.
> anti-science FUD types
Arguably, this could just as easily be applied to mainstream liberal views on the danger (or lack thereof) of nuclear power, GMOs, etc.
- WaxProlix 9y agoI totally agree, Black Book of Communism numbers aside. I think that having someone who's aligned themselves (again, tacitly) with those who explicitly make calls for and white supremacy makes it hard for people to distinguish. > Arguably, this could just as easily be applied to mainstream liberal views on the danger (or lack thereof) of nuclear power, GMOs, etc. Yeah, it's obnoxious and dangerous there, too.