“This is surrender, not principle.”
@GSpellchecker on how closing your eyes doesn’t make the problem disappear.https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/ …
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That said, I don’t think this problem is solvable under Capitalism and the privately-owned “public sphere”.
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If discourse is hosted on private land, people are within their rights to ask the owner “do you agree with what is hosted on your platform?”
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If, for example, a shopping mall permits an alt-right/neo-nazi stand, they are saying that they find that acceptable on their property.
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The core problem is that, under Capitalism, we lack a public sphere. All our public spaces are privately owned & that’s bad for democracy.
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(Because, remember, that for every Milo you want to silence, there are a hundred religious fundamentalists who want to silence you.)
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We will not win the war of ideas by silencing the ones we don’t like but by nurturing a commons where ideas can be freely debated.
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however, Nazis will cynically exploit people's tolerance and their debating style involves inciting violence or carrying it out
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Indeed. And we must not tolerate intolerance. That’s why constitutional protections of fundamental freedoms are essential.
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