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It's not only these that have learned to keep their mouth shut. I'm even skeptical that they do. Extreme positions are uncontrollable, they demand to be heard.
by cristianpascu 9y ago
It's not only these that have learned to keep their mouth shut. I'm even skeptical that they do. Extreme positions are uncontrollable, they demand to be heard. The more moderate, the more nuanced a position is, harder it is to put it on card board and hide your face behind it. And by moderate, nowadays, we should understand anything that is not extreme left or right. There's a deep commonality, unconscious most of the time if not always, between those extremes. That's why they only think and act and hate as if only they exist. They and their enemies.
- specialist 9y agoWe agree that extreme demands attention. We probably disagree on what to do about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance I grew up believing silence is death. The distinction, lost on all the defenders of hate speech, is punching up vs punching down.
- colordrops 9y agoNo, not all. I would never trash an under privileged group of people but I do recognize the reason that hate speech is protected constitutionally and why it has been upheld in the Supreme Court. Fuck censorship.
- specialist 9y agoSee? We don't even share the same definition for hate speech.
- colordrops 9y agoWhat do you mean? I'm just saying that I wouldn't use hate speech but I defend the right of others to do so. You said "lost on all the defenders of hate speech". I am a defender, but not user, of hate speech.