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Things people generally approve of have no need for protection. It when you have to protect the rights of those who you find horrible that your principles are
by johngladtj 4y ago
Things people generally approve of have no need for protection.
It when you have to protect the rights of those who you find horrible that your principles are actually put to the test.
You failed that test here.
- mdhb 4y agoNobody has to protect the rights of trying to drive people to suicide for their own amusement. It’s good to draw lines in the sand otherwise you end up standing for nothing worth defending. The argument was never to only defend things you agree with. That was something you just made up to reframe things so you could defend the Nazis and tell yourself you were actually just enlightened.
- zirgs 4y agoI like that Germany is honest. They straight up say - if you deny the Holocaust - we will put you in prison. The rules are clear. Everyone knows what to expect. Meanwhile Americans say that they have the first amendment, freedom of speech, blah blah blah. But when you actually say what the law allows you to say then they will try to punish you anyway. I hate this dishonesty and extra-judicial punishments. I prefer people who are honest.
- b1c1jones 4y agoI believe he passed. Absolutism in the defense of Nazis is a vice, as I see it. Cloudfare is not a government entity, concepts of governmental speech suppression do not apply to it.
- zirgs 4y agoIn my county founding a Nazi or a Communist party is illegal. Pass a law that criminalises being a Nazi and put them in prison.