• pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Far too often people forget that Right to Free Speech is not your first right, and it is superseded by other human rights above it.

    Your right to Free Speech only applies as long as it doesn’t interfere with other people’s rights to safety and freedom from prejudice, hate, harm, etc…

    It’s not that complicated and yet countless people always fuck something so straightforward up.

  • Chenzo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the tolerance paradox

    If everyone is tolerant of every idea, then intolerant ideas will emerge. Tolerant people will tolerate this intolerance, and the intolerant people will not tolerate the tolerant people.

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      1 year ago

      The solution is that it’s a social contract. I agree to tolerate your weirdness and quirks. You agree to do the same to myself and others.

      By being intolerant (without a good reason), they break the social contract. Therefore they are no longer protected by it either.

    • janus2@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      honest to fuck why can’t we have the future where the last panel isn’t someone being dragged away by nazi fascists OR some kinda tankie government

      and im a fuckin commie saying this…

      silence a bigot and he’ll take to the streets. give a bigot an echo chamber and with any luck he’ll do more online circlejerking than IRL marching, at least

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        1 year ago

        tankies are just red fascist, literally have nothing in common with communist ideology other than a vague esthetic

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        1 year ago

        Actually studies have found that deplatforming works really well at combating hate speech. Online it can radicalize people. IRL at least they learn very quickly that there is no silent majority at their back.