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It’s sad that being against hate speech is considered modern, western and progressive. It seemed like the norm not too long ago.
by enumjorge 4y ago
It’s sad that being against hate speech is considered modern, western and progressive. It seemed like the norm not too long ago.
- imron 4y agoThe norm used to be that as bad as hate speech is, bad speech is the most important type of speech to protect because no one tries to ban speech that they like. This was recognized as important because invariably the powers that be change hands and then people with very different rules on what speech is bad get to use the same tools to suppress speech. That is why you had the ACLU defending the rights of nazis to hold rallies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_... which would likely not happen today
- legacynl 4y agoNowadays they come armed with bodyarmor and rifles so.. it's not completely the same thing.
- permo-w 4y agoit greatly depends on how you define hate speech
- nl 4y agoBeing against the use of hate speech is pretty a core progressive value. It's 100% ok to teach kids they they shouldn't promote genocide or use racial slurs.
- pnutjam 4y agoI joined tried out a new game afew months back, a Vietnam War based FPS that was free on Epic. I was treated to the most disgusting explanation of why Jews deserve everything that happened to them, among other choice horrible bigotry from one of the players. Other players, seemed irritated and muttered about him, but he kept going until I finally logged off.
- permo-w 4y agowas it Bobby Fischer?