• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You position is undeniably stupid in the face of our modern world. Propaganda works and we will never be free of hate while “free speech absolutists” pretend they are anything more than hatemongers and charlatans.

    Tolerance of intolerance has lead us down this road with you cheering the whole way apparently.

    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Haha so I’m a braindead, stupid hate monger and charlatan according to you… I hope you appreciate the irony of you being the one that wants to restrict this kind of free speech.

      I agree that we will never be free of hate…period. Banning hate speech doesn’t help. Germany banned denial of the holocaust, Nazi salutes, burning the Quran, and look at them now; the anti-immigration alt-right is the strongest there since the 1940s. However, if you allow freedom of speech you can at least prevent abuses of power by the government.

      • DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        I really think you need to google the tolerance paradox.

        The ONE thing a society must be intolerant of, is intolerance.

        The KKK should be baned because they call for violence. They actively linch people. What are you talking about free speech?

        Also, most places don’t have free speech, while the biggest “free speech” country is already facist, so I’m not sure your argument of free speech not leading to terrible things hold up.

        Canada has hate speech laws and get along just fine?

        • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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          Oh I’m familiar with the paradox of tolerance, but it is not a consensus view that banning intolerant viewpoints is a good idea. Lynching and explicit calls for violence are plainly illegal and i dont defend them. However the KKK (to the extent that it even exists anymore) does not do those things, at least not officially. The ACLU famously defended the KKKs right to speak in public.
          Assuming you’re talking about America, the erosion of the constitution is a serious concern but we are far from being fascist (case in point, we are having this conversation without fear of retribution).
          Canada “gets along fine” in the sense that they have fewer immigrants than the US or Europe so demographic tensions are not as acute. But there is sure as hell racism and xenophobia there as well. Meanwhile in Europe, with much heavier restrictions on speech, there is I would argue more racism and xenophobia than the US.