The *nicest* thing Nazis should expect to be offered, in an ideal "free speech" society, is they give up in frustration when they try to speak because no one will listen, and therefore stay silent No audiences, no publications, nothing but closed doors in their faces
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But the consequences have to exist If you are not the one driving the Nazis into silence through fear, they will be the ones driving you to silence through fear It is a zero sum game This is a lesson from history written in blood
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When you have a Nazi and you have nine liberals defending the Nazi's right to air his opinions and attract an audience and build his public profile in the marketplace of ideas, you have ten Nazis That's not even rhetorical, that's exactly how the Nazi movement grew
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"When you say this you're saying you have no confidence you can prevail in a fair debate in the marketplace of ideas" You are absolutely right I have no such confidence, at all, because I can look at the history books and see how such debates have repeatedly failed
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I am absolutely speaking out of fear and I think my fear is completely justified
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Am I also speaking out of anger? Anger is just fear that's gotten a little bit of room to breathe, that's been backed into a corner and managed to pick up a rock
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Yeah - I mean, this is ultimately my reconciliation of being very dogmatic on the rights in the First Amendment: they're about the power of the cops. That means we not only need to exercise discretion in what we publish, we need to be vigiliant.
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I actually believe in the marketplace of ideas. Because like every other marketplace, the participants get to leave without buying anything, write nasty Yelp reviews, and warn all their friends not to go there.
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