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Your attitude is completely wrong in the same way the ACLU has gone wrong. Defending speech _as a right_ means defending it for everyone in all cases, most espe
by JasonFruit 4y ago
Your attitude is completely wrong in the same way the ACLU has gone wrong. Defending speech _as a right_ means defending it for everyone in all cases, most especially when it is unpopular. Otherwise you're not acting as a defense of free speech, but as an amplifier of speech you agree with. You become the Committee In Favor Of Speech We Like, which is pretty worthless.
- daenz 4y agoI think I miscommunicated my point. I agree with you, I am merely providing my perspective as to why they no longer hold those principles: because it "cannot be tolerated" in the modern era. We're still in an era of "punch people whose views i don't like."
- munk-a 4y agoWe see such bias within the Twitter sphere - but outside of that people are still a lot more reasonable. There is a fair bit of fear, I think, that mainstream allowance of neo-nazi groups is empowering recruitment but the real core of the issue is extremism being fed by a lack of general education.
- JasonFruit 4y agoI see what you are saying. Glad we agree. That attitude sets people who could make common cause at each other's throats instead.