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Pretty weak argument. Once you admit that certain views deserve to be taken off the able (astrology, the KKK, Nazis, and "Soviet-style communism," unclear wheth
by maldusiecle 8y ago
Pretty weak argument. Once you admit that certain views deserve to be taken off the able (astrology, the KKK, Nazis, and "Soviet-style communism," unclear whether Mao-style communism is permissible), you need to have principles about where the line is.
I know a lot of people who would absolutely describe Bannon as similar to Nazis or Soviets, who feel very strongly that his "white nationalist" views are likely to lead to a genocide. It's pretty widely know that the last subject of these "free speech" uproars, Milo Yiannapolous, flirted pretty openly with Nazi-style beliefs--and that Bannon was the one who gave him a platform in the first place.
If you disagree with Bannon being put in that category, you have a responsibility to at the very least explain why he's not there. Otherwise you're just cultivating willful ignorance, deliberately refusing to engage with others' arguments. Creating your own echo chamber, one could say.