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It's unnecessary to suppress nazi speech in a free country with free speech. They get nowhere. In fact, trying to forcibly suppress them just legitimizes them.
by skookumchuck 9y ago
It's unnecessary to suppress nazi speech in a free country with free speech. They get nowhere. In fact, trying to forcibly suppress them just legitimizes them.
You'll never convince people they're wrong by violently suppressing them.
- skookumchuck 9y agoOr by downvoting them :-)
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago> It's unnecessary to suppress nazi speech in a free country with free speech. They get nowhere. Tell that to Germany in 1920.
- skookumchuck 9y agoThe nazi party had their own private army, the brownshirts, that they used to violently suppress other parties and discourage non-supporters from voting. Once in power, the Night of the Long Knives was used to get rid of any opposition.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoEventually, yes. It started out as just talk, as most movements do. Shame nobody suppressed them before they got that far.
- skookumchuck 9y agoThey did. Hitler spent time in jail.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoClearly not enough.
- abusoufiyan 9y agoWhat...? You do realize openly Nazi parties are making electoral gains in Europe right now...