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If you take the time to study why and how the Nazis became popular and came into power, you’ll realise why suppression of public sentiment is so dangerous.

by jpxw 6y ago

user-the-name 6y ago
Actually, you won't find anything of the kind. Only if you wilfully set out to misinterpret history will you find anything like that. Hitler came into power because he was allowed to spread his message. Because he was given chance after chance to speak. Because he was given a platform.
- volkk 6y ago
  the argument you're presenting, at its core, is "if you dont give an evil person a chance to be evil then they wont succeed," which is correct, except how are you to interpret who is evil and who will be successful at being evil? and how do you do that fairly? it seems to be an impossible problem to solve from my POV and removing comms from various groups willy nilly because we're too scared that humanity is too stupid practice critical thinking and not give in to evil thought is a slippery slope. there has to be other ways?
  - user-the-name 6y ago
    I don't think that at this point in history, right now, there is much trouble identifying who is evil.
    - volkk 6y ago
      highly disagree considering how much bs exists posing as fact/information.
TT3351 6y ago
The NSDAP had plenty of rags they lied to the German people with
dang 6y ago
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle, or at least getting uncomfortably close to it. That's not allowed here—it destroys the curious conversation that this site is supposed to exist for. When accounts cross that line (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for more explanation), that's when we start banning them, regardless of which politics or ideology they're banning for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site for its intended purpose—especially now, as seemingly everything descends into the hell realms—we'd be grateful.

If you take the time to study why and how the Nazis became popular and came into power, you’ll realise why suppression of public sentiment is so dangerous.

by jpxw 6y ago

If you take the time to study why and how the Nazis became popular and came into power, you’ll realise why suppression of public sentiment is so dangerous.

user-the-name 6y ago

Actually, you won't find anything of the kind. Only if you wilfully set out to misinterpret history will you find anything like that. Hitler came into power because he was allowed to spread his message. Because he was given chance after chance to speak. Because he was given a platform.

volkk 6y ago
the argument you're presenting, at its core, is "if you dont give an evil person a chance to be evil then they wont succeed," which is correct, except how are you to interpret who is evil and who will be successful at being evil? and how do you do that fairly? it seems to be an impossible problem to solve from my POV and removing comms from various groups willy nilly because we're too scared that humanity is too stupid practice critical thinking and not give in to evil thought is a slippery slope. there has to be other ways?
- user-the-name 6y ago
  I don't think that at this point in history, right now, there is much trouble identifying who is evil.
  - volkk 6y ago
    highly disagree considering how much bs exists posing as fact/information.

TT3351 6y ago

The NSDAP had plenty of rags they lied to the German people with

dang 6y ago

It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle, or at least getting uncomfortably close to it. That's not allowed here—it destroys the curious conversation that this site is supposed to exist for. When accounts cross that line (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for more explanation), that's when we start banning them, regardless of which politics or ideology they're banning for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site for its intended purpose—especially now, as seemingly everything descends into the hell realms—we'd be grateful.