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In reply to the discussion: Censorship of hate speech is an unconditional surrender to hate. [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)18. In response to me asking where someone was being censored
There is no censorship there. Simply someone with an opinion you do not agree with.
Apparently they must be silenced, huh?
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Censorship of hate speech is an unconditional surrender to hate. [View all]
True Blue Door
May 2015
OP
Should the RCC/Westboro Baptists be held responsible for anti-lgbt hate crimes?
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#3
As you know, any mention of Phelps or the Pope sends this crew packing, she will never even try
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#33
If a muslim kills someone and says the Koran commanded it would you ban the Koran
CBGLuthier
May 2015
#4
Using your logic they should be rounding up the clerics and other Islamic scholars
Lee-Lee
May 2015
#27
Do you consider being free to use a city's bus service to promote hate "censorship"?
Scootaloo
May 2015
#6
No one is being censored there, are they? No Free speech is being infringed, is it?
Scootaloo
May 2015
#15
I posted a link to an op re: banning hate speech so you'd know what inspired the op.
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#16
No, they're free to express their extremely wrong-headed ideas about the 1st Amendment.
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#20
Floating the specter of Nazism doesn't work when the main reason it failed
True Blue Door
May 2015
#26
I mentioned Nazism to deflate it as an argument I knew someone like you would raise.
True Blue Door
May 2015
#32
Scholars have written volumes on the subject, there are hours of documentary footage available
Pooka Fey
May 2015
#37
I'm aware of the history, and of people's attempts to rewrite it for ideological purposes.
True Blue Door
May 2015
#41
Let me analyse just one sentence of your above post, because I only have 45 minutes.
Pooka Fey
May 2015
#42
France had a resistance movement. Germany had a few random people defying Hitler
True Blue Door
May 2015
#44
Stating that a German Resistance existed does in NO WAY condone or excuse the evil of the 3rd Reich
Pooka Fey
May 2015
#45
The scholarship on the subject is massive because the need to find humanizing details
True Blue Door
May 2015
#47
I'm not convinced the metro bus system couldnt have other options for regulating ads than
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#19
I watched Straight Religious people stage hundreds and hundreds of attacks on LGBT funerals while
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#36
I'm aware that rational argument is insufficient, but it is definitely indispensable.
True Blue Door
May 2015
#40