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Actually, I'm not a racist scumbag so I'm at least better than that.

• AnimalMuppet 8y ago
  Good. Seriously. It's good that you're not a racist scumbag. But the actual quality of you as a human being wasn't the issue. The issue is that, if you're going to block speech by scumbags, there is someone who is going to consider you a scumbag. If you allow speech from scumbags to get blocked, then you need the people controlling the blocking to have the right ideas of who is a scumbag. Will the right people be the ones making the decisions? Will they always be the right people - not just this year and next, but always? I'm not willing to condone that power, because it can be used against me, not just against the people I want it to be used against.
  • spookthesunset 8y ago
    Honestly? I don’t give a crap what private company blocks and bans folks in the alt right. More the marrier. In fact, I wish all companies took a stand against the alt-right. Even if the government started to persecute them, I wouldn’t care. They are all my enemy and I view them as an existential threat to myself, my family and my country. Appeals to the Slippery slope argument doesn’t register with me anymore. They are the enemy and need to go away. Ps: I’m old. I used to think like you. But now I see that sometimes things get out of hand. You are defending a group of people who don’t give a flying fuck about free speech or any of the values you have. And worse, they are in power and use arguments just like yours to remain in power.
    • AnimalMuppet 8y ago
      By defending their freedom of speech, I am defending my freedom of speech. I may not care about theirs, but I care about mine. And for you to not be worried about this being used against you... you just said that these people are in power. That means that they at least have the capability of using it against you in the near future.