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It always fascinating to me when Americans pretend freedom of speech will automatically solve all struggles between people having incompatible worldview while t
by Faark 8y ago
It always fascinating to me when Americans pretend freedom of speech will automatically solve all struggles between people having incompatible worldview while their own political landscape in recent years has become more divisive than ever... I see quite a few similarities with pre ww2 Germany. We'll how fast violence will be on the rise.
- int_19h 8y agoIt's not that it will solve all struggles. It's that censorship doesn't solve them, either, but makes everything else worse. And speaking of our own political landscape, last thing I want is a right wing populist government that has been handed laws to crack down on "hate speech" by my fellow progressive do-gooders. If such laws were to pass and found constitutional, I'd expect BLM and BDS to be the first targets in all red states (and Europe has ample precedent for persecuting BDS as "hate speech", so it's not like you'd have any moral high ground on calling them out on it).