> This thread is surrealistic to me in light of the NPR retraction. I was responding to the statement that bad ideas should be censored, not to the actions tak

> This thread is surrealistic to me in light of the NPR retraction. I was responding to the statement that bad ideas should be censored, not to the actions taken by NPR. I actually agree that NPR did the right thing by retracting the false information. That is a very different thing from censoring bad ideas. So yes, the thread derailed off into the swamp and here we sit on the wreckage. > In most countries in the EU it's forbidden to be a nazi, that's an opinion you're simply not allowed to have. Yes, I know. I studied Nazism in depth during my undergrad years while earning a history degree. I still recall being nauseated for an entire semester because of the material in one particular course, in fact. The downside of restricting political thought is that those who create the restrictions generally become tyrants themselves.