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Squabbles, another recent reddit alternative, seems to be taking the doomed "free speech" path
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Yes, that's exactly what it means. Often, participating is very unpleasant. (I had to leave the Holocaust denial discussion - that one was too personal for me.) And I still think we ought to respect places where people do get to talk like that.
There is good and bad, and good people can't assume they'll always be able to fight harder or yell louder. On the contrary, bad people tend to be better at fighting and at yelling. So if good people fight and yell, they give up the long-term advantages that they may have. Those advantages are that appeals to our common humanity sometimes work, and that peaceful coexistence makes everyone safer and wealthier. But to have these advantages, you need to be willing to tolerate people you hate and hear them out. After all, that's what you want the other side to do.
(Sometimes that doesn't work and you do have to fight, but if you're in that position then you're already competing on the enemy's terms. The Allies didn't win World War II because they were the good guys. They won because they had more guns, and next time the bad guys may have more guns.)
lmao you are the perfect example of what is wrong with this kind of thinking. You are free to ahead and block someone who was simply arguing in favor of free speech, but no one thinks big of you for it and the fact you decided to declare it to the world is hilarious.
Try visiting Belsen or Dachau, you fucking child.
OK? That doesn't absolve the real childish behavior I was responding to, you idiot.
This rubbish is part of the problem with the internet right now. Just because you decided that one side is a "nazi" or "hateful" it doesn't mean it's actually true. You're saying "my opinion is right and the only real opinion so everyone else should be banned".
You know who also thinks that? Fascists. The literal nazis thought like that too.
People have to remember that to the "bad people", you're the "bad people". Neither side should be advocating for banning the other from discussing their opinions and views, yet it's only one side that's calling for that.
I don't think this is due to some ideological commitment. The strong can suppress the weak, but the weak can't suppress the strong. Whichever side has the upper hand at the moment will have members calling for censorship.
Currently the weak are suppressing the strong though through their scare tactics of labelling anyone that disagrees "transphobic" or "bigot" or "nazi".
That's classic fascist rhetoric.
Fascists love censorship. Who in here is advocating for and begging for censorship?
"It's bad to be transphobic, bigoted or a nazi"
"you call anyone who disagrees with you 'transphobic' or 'bigot' or 'nazi'"
What’s happening however is:
“Maybe don’t experiment on children by giving them irreversible puberty blockers and surgeries”
“Transphobe!!! Bigot! Die fucking Terf nazi!!!!”
When you're dying of cancer, we won't experiment on you with chemo either. Fair?
Chemo isn’t experimental though. There are experimental types of cancer treatments and guess what? They go through years and years of trials and tests. You know what hasn’t done that? Puberty blockers.
Oh, the FDA turned a blind eye, did they?
I see you've got your little bit of screen time so you're back on your rants. When the world continues to spin and you are the minority, will you be one of the ones to change your views? Will you be the coward who holds his bigotries in silence? Or the vocal minority that rails against the coming of the light and is seen by all as the impotent creature of hate that you would be?
Place your bets.
Great fantasies and what ifs! Really making a good point 😂