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Not trying to be the fun police here, but discussion that paints out-groups with a broad brush and reinforce the supposed superiority of the in-group are how fa
by jandrese 2y ago
Not trying to be the fun police here, but discussion that paints out-groups with a broad brush and reinforce the supposed superiority of the in-group are how fascists get the ball rolling. Every time. Identify some minority, shift the blame for all of societies problems onto that minority, rally people around prosecuting that minority. Genocide. It is a song as old as time. If you don't fight it early and constantly it can grow out of control surprisingly quickly. These messages are a siren call to anybody looking for someone else to blame for their problems.
- ethagknight 2y ago"Free speech is a slippery slope to fascist genocide" ?
- jandrese 2y agoThe term you need to Google is the "Paradox of Tolerance". There have been many scholarly articles written on the subject far too long to fit in a HN post.
- ethagknight 2y agoI'm well familiar with Popper, you are still drawing a direct line between mean-spirited comments on social media to Totalitarianism as a justification for control of speech for differing worldviews? Many of the mean spirited and politically divisive comments are actually simple observations of what is happening at the time. Things which we are told we are not allowed to say? So therefore, Intolerance is the only rebuttal to intolerance? Argument falls in on itself. (edited for minor cleanup)
- croon 2y agoFree speech has lost all meaning in a world connected by large corporations with opaque algorithms and weighting, where discussions of "free speech" can be drowned out by propaganda. Propaganda is a slippery slope to fascist genocide. The "marketplace of ideas" does not work if you're never exposed to counter arguments/viewpoints/facts.