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For society to decide it needs to hear the view. If early abolitionists were deplatformed, you think the idea of abolition would still magically arise in every
by xyzelement 6y ago
For society to decide it needs to hear the view.
If early abolitionists were deplatformed, you think the idea of abolition would still magically arise in everyone's head at the same time? Nope,society would never heard the concept, never adopt it and we'd still have slavery.
Let's be a society of adults. Allow voices to be heard and be rejected or accepted by people as makes sense to them. Otherwise you are moving the decision power from the people to the silencers.
There's no precident in history for that working out well.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoWait — do you think that abolitionists were not deplatformed?
- xyzelement 6y agoThey were able to publish their pamphlets etc. I am sure people tried to crush them down, my point is to not celebrate that.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoLet me pose the question to you again: do you believe fascists/segregationists/etc should be able to insert their platform into school curricula? Because again, that is the logical extreme of what you’re proposing. Or is that an acceptable form of viewpoint discrimination?