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Yes the solution to racist speech is to just ignore it. You seem to be though equating speech with racism. Racism typically takes many other forms. The racism
by matt-attack 3y ago
Yes the solution to racist speech is to just ignore it.
You seem to be though equating speech with racism. Racism typically takes many other forms. The racism you cannot ignore is when it’s violence, or policies or the like. Neither of those is free speech.
So yes if it’s racist * speech* in the sense of truly just words, then yes. Ignore it.
I’m really surprised this isn’t obvious.
- dotandgtfo 3y agoIt's less of an equation and more of a counter example for how absurdly oversimplified and privileged the position of "just ignore it" is. >Yes the solution to racist speech is to just ignore it. Citation needed. As a foreigner living in Germany it's pretty obvious they've drawn different conclusions than that. I'll also point out that there is nothing obvious about how free speech is defined (by Americans). There's obviously limits to speech, it's just been delineated into the constitutional "free speech" and the colloquial notion of "free speech". Which you seem to be conflating (or assuming that I care about). The OP is squarely about the more colloquial understanding of the word.