the staff of charlie hebdo who were killed are martyrs in the name of free speech and deserve respect
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Replying to @a_man_in_black
but charlie hebdo is racist garbage that I rate only slightly above used toilet paper, only because it's useful for a wipe
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Replying to @a_man_in_black
you should not refrain from publishing racist garbage for fear of violent extremists or government censorship
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Replying to @a_man_in_black
you should refrain from publishing racist garbage because you are not a fucking asshole
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Replying to @a_man_in_black
and that includes "ironic" racist garbage because then you are just the publishing equivalent of an unfunny /pol/-posting motherfucker
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Replying to @a_man_in_black
i have a great deal of faith in the essential liberal idea that you should have the freedom to be a huge asshole but should refrain anyway
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Replying to @a_man_in_black
@a_man_in_black i think the core proposition is that the human costs of making it impossible to be an asshole > costs of tolerating assholes1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @chaosprime
@a_man_in_black i think that's prolly right, if only because the amount of invasive power required actually outlaw assholishness is SO huge1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@a_man_in_black and therefore so subject to abuse and therefore so inevitably abused
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Replying to @chaosprime
@a_man_in_black the horror of an abuser who has the actual power to compel you to pretend they're helping you cannot be overstated0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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