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- OJFord 1y agoSurely you have also to act on it in some way? I don't agree with the 'ideology' but I don't find it totally unreasonable or objectionable. And surely even 'everyone who doesn't worship X and abstain from Y and live according to text Z is living in sin' is... That's just an ideology, that's fine, it's not terrorist until you do some sort of destructive act in its name or try to enforce it somehow? Some context lost in the linked article I think, not having read into it.
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- typewithrhythm 1y agoThe context is that the UK government has extremely wide reaching powers to fine or imprison based on online speech, with much of the wording of these laws being contrived as anti terror. So by classifying a position as terrorist ideology, they can apply these laws and chill opposition.
- elephant81 1y agohttps://www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-confluence?utm_medium=ios https://www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-confluence?utm_medium=ios Tyler Cowen posted this last week, I was completely shocked by it. Worth reading on the state of the UK in general.
- HK-NC 1y agoIsnt what hes saying super naughty? I know Kier Starmer changed his tune lately regarding immigration, I'm just not used to reading or hearing people talk aboit these things without an air of secrecy.
- veqq 1y ago> 90 percent of the American people stated that they would rather loose [sic] the war than give full equality to the American Negroes from Greenberg's Troubling the Waters about Black-Jewish relations.
- arandomusername 1y ago[flagged]
- FridayoLeary 1y agoit's unfair to hold people from the past to our moral standards. I'm sure that in 50 years they will be appalled at some of the things we do. Society progresses. Hopefully.
- tomhow 1y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219711 and marked it off topic.