the insidious mainstreaming of pro-censorship advocacy is the most dangerous cultural phenomenon of the 21st century. our brief, american liberty has been an unprecedented historical outlier. if we don't fight for freedom, we will absolutely lose it in our lifetime.https://twitter.com/stengel/status/1189157532909981696 …
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increasingly the argument for censorship is "europe does it." I would remind pro-censorship activists europe is also the continent of marx and hitler, and there are literal members of the nazi party still alive in germany today. in liberty, americans do not follow. we lead.
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Maybe the reason they have hate speech laws is because they have a lived experience as a society with genocide, whereas America has never really come to terms with its own history slavery, Jim Crow, Cointelpro, taking Native American lands, etc.
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In Germany, at least, a lot of what are called German "censorship" policies in the current US discourse on this matter have actually been pushed/set up by the Allies/the US post-45. Eg no "homeschooling"/compulsory school attendance is explicitly such a policy.
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extremely fucked up btw — imagine compulsory public school under hitler
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Replying to @micsolana @kimmaicutler
Little "imagining" needed. My Polish grandmother attended one. Her future husband was in a labour camp '39-'45. Polish communists separated me from my parents as a kid for a year to extract, Venezuala-style, my dad's business.
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You are on of the interesting people on my Twitter, but I think you are off on this issue, though. Thinking of it, getting somebody from the US post-war administration who worked on the German denazification and preached a strong state could be probably cool for Hereticon.
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which part is off? we aren’t experiencing anything close to naziism in america, and by your own admission fascist public school was deeply wrong. genuinely not sure where we are disagreeing.
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