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"Ignorant" == you can't be bothered to come up with a genuine refutation
by threevox 6y ago
"Ignorant" == you can't be bothered to come up with a genuine refutation
- tclancy 6y agoWatch: this is some white dude worrying that white dudes might be silenced. Show me all the money trying to make marginalized voices heard and then you cannot fuck off into the multiverse like whichever anime show you Stan but don’t respect.
- LocalH 6y agoStop equating strong freedom-of-speech ideals with racism. Nobody should be silenced unless they are directly inciting violence. Remember, any exceptions can be twisted around as social norms change.
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- krapp 6y ago>Nobody should be silenced unless they are directly inciting violence. >Remember, any exceptions can be twisted around as social norms change. If no exceptions to free speech can be allowed because they could possibly be twisted, then neither can the exception for directly inciting violence. Absolute means absolute.
- AgentOrange1234 6y agoHow about: drumming up hatred and demonizing people has a long history of terrible consequences, e.g., rwanda, nazi germany, kkk, ...
- tone 6y agoYou make a good point but you can't in the long term fight against this in a healthy way by stifling peoples access to information. Some people seem to hold the worldview that they know the right answers and must protect the simpletons from the wrong ones, where others would like to make all information available and trust in people to eventually form sensible solutions.
- spanktheuser 6y agoIt’s interesting how people like the OP single out the two cures for the diseases of hatred & oppression: censorship and cancellation. And yet lack the courage to couch their ask in plain language: Let us say anything we want but never face any consequence for doing so.