I won't tweet about this any further but I want to live in a society where reactionary and idiotic movements are defeated politically, not punished on the individual level until every moron becomes a martyr and the backlash undoes a century of progress. But YMMV.
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So if you take it as a given that someone cannot know if they are a figurative Nazi or not - which they definitely don't - entrusting any group with the power to deplatform is simply seen as too dangerous by those of us who acknowledge human ignorance and hubris.
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And you think it's impossible for someone with a destructive far-right ideology to know that they have a destructive far-right ideology, therefore we must lock away the power to deplatform (the natural first step to genocide) in fear of human ignorance and hubris.
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This might be the wildest take I've ever heard. You're starting from the premise that my definition of "nazi" wouldn't include literal actual historical nazis, whose goals you think started out as "de-platforming people" before going down the obvious slippery slope to genocide.
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No, not that their goals started out as deplatforming. Their _actions_ started out as deplatforming. This is not uncommon for any regime that ends in genocide. Control of the narrative, by removing dissenting voices, is the first necessary step.
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