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In reply to the discussion: Censorship of hate speech is an unconditional surrender to hate. [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)32. I mentioned Nazism to deflate it as an argument I knew someone like you would raise.
You obliged.
So no, despit a (weirdly) popular meme, Hitler was not elected to a damn thing.
The Nazi Party won a large minority in open election. Hitler was then accepted into government as part of a governing coalition. Part of their argument for assuming dictatorial power was to end the civil violence they themselves were usually responsible for. Funny that, how people with a violent agenda try to sell it by blaming the victims.
...Except of course that the Weimar Constitution guaranteed individual freedom of speech
Anyone can write anything on a piece of paper. Respect for liberty doesn't arise from the strength of laws - it's the other way around. The Weimar Republic, the Bolivarian constitutions of 19th century Latin America, and post-Soviet Russia made that abundantly clear.
Your history is a stewpot of factoid-driven ignorance and deliberate evasions.
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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