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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The deep divisiveness comes from the shitty ideas that should have been shunned long ago and instead were left to fester.

You don't care about instances loke Exploding Heads or their awful ideas because you're unaffected by them so you can hold these lofty perfect ideals instead of facing the reality of the situation.

Opposing and shunning hate speech is not fascism and your argument depends on pretending to be unable to see the difference between hate and disagreement.

Allow me to illucidate the simplicity of this in reality:

Economic policy: Disagreement
Minstrel show images: Hate speech
Energy policy: Disagreement
Saying men and straight people should have less rights than women and gays: Hate speech

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You continue to ignore historical precedence. Everyone want to think that they would have been Oskar Schindler, but the reality is that if you were a German in 1935, you would have supported the Nazis, just like the overwhelming majority of Germans.

The question isn't whether minstrel shows or homophobic attitudes are hate speech. The question is whether the people holding those opinions can speak them, or whether they should be censored and oppressed.

Silencing someone for holdong a politically incorrect opinion: hate speech.