This Whole Discussion Around Free Speech and Milo Yiannopoulos is Causing a Rift on the Left

[JCanete]

89. by who? Who gets to make the determination about who is Hitler? Do not tell me you don't see

a slippery slope with that logic. That is a way to shut down conversations, not to illuminate them and show the world that people like Hitler are the insane, irrational people that they are.

It isn't that Hitler needed to be silenced, it was that his dissenters were silenced.

Of course a protest doesn't rise to that level, and of course that in itself is free-speech. As to shutting down someone like Milo, I understand it, but I'm not sure it was the best way to do things. It only ceded right-wingers some of the high ground on conversations about free-speech, whereas having him on Maher, as many people have pointed out here and in other threads, only showed him to be pretty incapable of selling the hatred he espouses when actually challenged.