Words like 'justify' & 'defend' used in relation to horrible speech & arguments for not banning it miss the point.http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/08/27/stop-trying-to-justify-hate-speech-as-free-speech/ …
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Believing ppl have the right to air horrible views leads to fascism but thinking they don't, doesn't?!
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You can air a lot of terrible views. Advocating genocide and political ideology that creates concentration camps? Not among them.
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Then how do we counter them?
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Utterly marginalize them. As Hitler and Goebbels advised, crush their movement in its infancy.
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I just co-wrote a manifesto arguing this. Banning ideas cant marginalise as well as addressing them.
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Banning is essentially making ppl pretend a problem doesn't exist. Crap way of fixing it.
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You don't need to give a serial killer a platform at a university to explain why serial killers are wrong.
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They don't have an ideology. They don't make arguments that convince ppl & so need rebutting
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Civil debate went on for decades. The result? Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. Charlottesville and 9% approval of fascism.
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Yes, the threat to it is recent. Obama was very popular, very recently.
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9% think its acceptable to have those views. I think its acceptable to have religious views but hate them
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Yeah I hate religion as well. Religion is adaptable and cherry picked. Fascism is explicit and genocidal.
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I think its acceptable for ppl to say they believe non-believers shld be tortured for eternity.
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Then we can counter them. Its not acceptable for them to advocate violence because of it.
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Have you spent any time trying to "counter" them? Because I have. They don't care about facts and logic. They want an ethnostate.
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Sure. But their ideas can only be marginalised by addressing them. Not by banning their expression.
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That's a result of it being devalued, yes.
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