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Yeah, absolutely. Even nazis deserve free speech. If it's effective, it's effective. If the Panthers were given actual free speech during the 60s, the world wou
by caslon 5y ago
Yeah, absolutely. Even nazis deserve free speech. If it's effective, it's effective. If the Panthers were given actual free speech during the 60s, the world would have been an infinitely better place. If labor activists were given free speech rather than being habitually and ritualistically slaughtered by local and federal governments leading up to the 1930s the United States would be a drastically better place and it's likely that Germany would not have turned out so poorly in the first place as a side result.
It doesn't matter whether the speech is effective or not. The root of your problem is that what has happened traditionally is that governments will censor left-leaning views while leaving the right free. The problem, then, is not that the right is not being censored, but that the left is.