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Not really. It's not the same ideology. It's the same tool.

• rayvd 7y ago
  Leads to the same place.
• CzechTech 7y ago
  Doesn't matter what kind of authoritarianism it is. Marxism, fascism, religious extremism... same deal. Freedoms are very easily given away, but getting them back usually costs a lot of lives. Sometimes millions of lives. I will never understand how shortsighted people can get when it comes to this simple concept. The fact that you're making the rules today doesn't mean that you're going to be making them tomorrow (or in 10 years). "Hate speech" laws are the greatest example of this. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see a problem in defining "hate speech" as "whatever the personal opinion of a police man or a judge happens to be at the time". Some countries, like the UK, have already gone far beyond even hate speech laws straight into persecuting wrongthink and "offense" (nazi pugs anyone?). It's sad to see because it can't really end well. The west's pathological obsession with being anti-racist (it's not even anti-racism at this point, it's anti-bigotry where bigotry can mean anything from being a white nationalist all the way to not validating morbidly obese people). It's a shame you pretty much have to be a conservative (or a citizen of a post-communist eastern european country) these days to realize these simple concepts. When the feelings start taking over logic and reason it's time stop and think what you're actually advocating for.