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Prominent Canadian activist and author arrested for pro-Palestinian activism
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this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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The right wing assholes whining about free speech don't actually want free speech. You can see that in the campaigns to remove books from school libraries all across the country. All across the world the right are demonstrating time and again how little they actually support free speech.
What they want is the freedom to spew hate speech, which is the only kind of speech that a tolerant and free society should not tolerate. All other forms of speech they will gladly and eagerly suppress unless it agrees with them.
Right wing assholes don't want free speech, but I do.
That includes extremist views, since the government should not in any way be in business of determining what those are
It's not a question of "extremist". What is or isn't "extreme" is largely a matter of how far an idea strays from the norm. Some extreme ideas are very good, some extreme ideas are terrible.
The question, rather, is of purpose, not character. Intolerant speech - that is, speech whose purpose is to limit the rights of specific groups of people to exist - is the only kind of speech that we must be prepared to limit, because without limits on intolerant speech, the intolerant will ultimately abuse their freedoms to strip away freedoms from others.
This draws a hard line. It clearly defines and delineates what is and is not acceptable. It is a simple and clear rule that any tolerant society must abide by if it is to continue to be a tolerant society.
For the proof of this, you only need to look at what is happening in the US right now.