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> if you aren't scared of what another Trump can do to your country or its societal fabric or your personal freedoms [..] I think instead of being scared of wh
by mariusor 4y ago
> if you aren't scared of what another Trump can do to your country or its societal fabric or your personal freedoms [..]
I think instead of being scared of what allowing unethical speech can bring and trying to censor it, we should work towards ensuring that there is equal and opposing points of view, hopefully with better reasoned arguments. As far as I can tell the problem is that the people which are able to put those points of view "on paper" rarely bother to do so, because arguing against someone like Trump never encounters a good faith debate, and most of the times, it's so obvious that it's so wrong. But of course that it's not obviously wrong for a vast number of people, and explicitly stating it, might help them.
Expanding on this discussion see the exchange between Peter Boghossian and Laurie Penny in one of the classics of letter.wiki: https://letter.wiki/conversation/863 https://letter.wiki/conversation/863