Voltaire didn't say that. This guy did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Alfred_Strom …https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/327411826465832961 …
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People you aren't allowed to criticize: your mom, the disabled, people who just died. It's sinister nonsense, and breathtakingly dumb.
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...anyone in the military except sometimes, er, look if my prog friends had my way you'd be part of this list too. Doesn't that make it OK?
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I have no idea what you just said, sorry.
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ie. they are big fans of authoritarianism. I guess it's not really that important or very nuanced or anything. It was a long Monday. :/
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Likewise, Frederick the Great was perfectly fine to let Voltaire couchsurf, despite being technically more absolute than English/French king
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Yeah. No general formula; depends on who you are, where you are, who's doing the forbidding.
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On the positive side, now that he's fallen for it, we can expect six or eight "correction" pieces, now.
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Four year old tweet tho
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Yep: if a ruler feels compelled to silence all criticism, that means the ruler isn't terribly secure and may be brought down by such.
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Interesting example: greater freedom to criticize Kings of England (where feudalism was weak and monarchy strong) vs those of France or HRE.
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OTOH Voltaire, too was anti-Semitic but I forgive him as Marxism (the intellectual's anti-Semitism) wasn't around to soothe his ressentiment
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