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> I'm also in favor of free speech over censorship - it's very easy to demonstrate in an open conversation that mindless hatred of others based on their ethnic/
by p_j_w 3y ago
> I'm also in favor of free speech over censorship - it's very easy to demonstrate in an open conversation that mindless hatred of others based on their ethnic/religious/racial background is simply the product of ignorance and immaturity.
Demonstrating that fact is a really poor substitute for taking some kind of action against an ongoing genocide.
- photochemsyn 3y agoPractically, the best way to have avoided the problem might have been to encourage Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to NOT engage in the export of radical Wahhabist ideology and the funding of regime change operations in other states. Kind of like the best way to have avoided the war in Ukraine would have been for the USA to NOT have engaged in a regime change op in 2014, and the best way to avoid the current Libyan disaster would have been for NATO to have NOT engaged in a regime change operation in 2011, and so on.
- p_j_w 3y agoRegardless of whether the things you assert caused the genocide or not, there was a genocide ongoing and your free speech and rational argumentation is completely impotent to stop it.
- cultureswitch 3y agoDo you believe Facebook could stop or even affect what happened in any meaningful way? Because I've got a bridge to sell
- p_j_w 3y agoIf they had taken action then fewer people would have undoubtedly got swept up, yea, absolutely 100%. I have to say though, “I don’t think it would’ve had much impact anyways so they should get a pass for knowingly profiting off of aiding and abetting a genocide” is not an argument I thought someone would ever seriously advance. Congratulations for that.