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The banning of dissent under the pretense of radicalism has harmed more people than terrorism — Stalin’s purges, Mao’s purges, heck, even Hitler was just cleari

The banning of dissent under the pretense of radicalism has harmed more people than terrorism — Stalin’s purges, Mao’s purges, heck, even Hitler was just clearing out the seditious members of society who were undermining a strong Germany. Your arguments, however you mean them, are also those used by tyrannical oppressors to justify the powers they use to commit great evil.

InitialLastName 8y ago
In an (unintentional?) irony, all of those people you cited rose to power and did great damage to their societies by exploiting radicalism in politics.
- FakeComments 8y ago
  Sure — but each turned around and caused great harm through false claims of being opposed to radicalism while using power to silence their political enemies. It wasn’t during their radical phase that the mass evils happened, but as they instituted oppressive measures in the name of safety having secured power. Those measures to oppress radicalism are instrumental to systematic evil. This exactly matches the modern left: they accumulated power through acts of radicalism from the 1960s to present, peaking with racial violence in the 1980s, are intentionally misrepresenting the volume of left wing versus right wing extremism now (hint: over the past two years, there’s been more left wing violence), and now started agitating to silence their enemies under the name of preventing extremism. I picked those people intentionally: they’re all people who believe the same socialist radical left policies, who had acts of radicalism in their past, and who went on to great evil following the period they started calling for violence and censorship to silence “radicals”. My exact call out is that it is analogous to leftist behavior now. I think you’d have trouble finding similar examples of that style of censorship being used for good, which is why you haven’t called them out as evidence in a single reply.

InitialLastName 8y ago

In an (unintentional?) irony, all of those people you cited rose to power and did great damage to their societies by exploiting radicalism in politics.

FakeComments 8y ago
Sure — but each turned around and caused great harm through false claims of being opposed to radicalism while using power to silence their political enemies. It wasn’t during their radical phase that the mass evils happened, but as they instituted oppressive measures in the name of safety having secured power. Those measures to oppress radicalism are instrumental to systematic evil. This exactly matches the modern left: they accumulated power through acts of radicalism from the 1960s to present, peaking with racial violence in the 1980s, are intentionally misrepresenting the volume of left wing versus right wing extremism now (hint: over the past two years, there’s been more left wing violence), and now started agitating to silence their enemies under the name of preventing extremism. I picked those people intentionally: they’re all people who believe the same socialist radical left policies, who had acts of radicalism in their past, and who went on to great evil following the period they started calling for violence and censorship to silence “radicals”. My exact call out is that it is analogous to leftist behavior now. I think you’d have trouble finding similar examples of that style of censorship being used for good, which is why you haven’t called them out as evidence in a single reply.