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Karl Popper pointed out that the free speech must defend itself. Otherwise a party that wants to put an end to it will use it for own propaganda and eventually
by fpoling 2y ago
Karl Popper pointed out that the free speech must defend itself. Otherwise a party that wants to put an end to it will use it for own propaganda and eventually get into power destroying free speech.
Of cause it is hard to get the balance right and what UK is doing does not look right. But UK does have the problem of ultra-right movements that want to establish a fascist regime.
- zozbot234 2y ago> Karl Popper pointed out that the free speech must defend itself. Yes, that's in fact a very old idea - that the "soap box" must defend itself with the "ballot box", and the ballot box with the "cartridge box". But what's happening now is a lot worse: free speech is being destroyed for the sake of not "causing offense". Which amounts to giving express legitimacy to intolerance, and saying that it must always win over tolerance.
- card_zero 2y agoDid he mention speech? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#The_Open_Society_and_Its_Enemies_(1945) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#The_Open_Society_a... I think you refer to the quotes about the paradoxes of freedom and tolerance.
- fpoling 2y agoThanks, I was mistaken. However any reasonable tolerance includes broad free speech so Popper was more generic.