Implying you can't do both
I do note you're a "classic liberal", but I feel that stance to be based on a logical fallacy that absolute free speech must be upheld at all costs, even when we have recent examples (such as the incel movement) showing that hate speech and incitement can lead to action.
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You take all agency away from people when you assume that. Honestly tell me what the difference is between you saying "incel" shit leads to violence and a christian conservative saying video games lead to violence and so should be banned. Exact same thing
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False equivalency. Because incel is a very particular movement with misogyny and violent ideology at its very root, while video games do not showcase any particular ideology so cannot be seen to lead to the same conclusion.
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The case can absolutely be made that games like GTA have misogny and violence at their root.
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But you didn't say GTA. You said "video games". But as you're going with that argument, could you show me how the satirical universe of the GTA games is ideologically the same as the incel or white supremacists movement, with the same goals?
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Basically incel and white supremacy involve the ultimate goal of eradicating something. So what are
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So trying to eradicate something is bad? Should we ban the freedom of speech of marxists who call for the eradication of the capitalist class? Feminists who call for eradication of toxic men? Atheists who call for eradication of religion?
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Your argument is confused. Yes, calling for genocide is bad? The eradication of ideas and ideology is fine. You can be against the tenets of Islam without wanting the genocide of Muslims, for example.
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I'm saying that the mistreatment of the capitalist class under marxism is as equally as inevitable as the subjugation of ethnic minorities will be in Richard Spencer's ethnostate.
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