Tell me the name of ONE person you personally know who's speech is being censored and tell me how it is being censored.
I'm so tired of this insane right wing garbage about speech being censored.
It is total nonsense. A complete fantasy.
On the level of Obama being a secret Muslim. A non-existent "problem".
If you want to harp on the secret Muslim conspiracy theory, you've got the wrong person. I never subscribed to that theory, Underseer did. He also believed in a secret weather control machine. As for the rest ...
I don't personally know Milo, but there's a whole thread about him being censored. The title of the thread is "Berkeley "liberals" contra free speech". If you read that thread you might figure out what I'm talking about.
Since I don't
personally know him, I can't answer your question. It only counts if I personally know the person. I shouldn't defend the rights of strangers.
Except I aspire to be better than you in this regard, and defend the rights of people even if they aren't in my immediate circle of friends. Even if I disagree with them.
I get it. The only speech I should be concerned about is my speech. I shouldn't care at all if someone else is experiencing censorship. I shouldn't defend the rights of others.
Except I aspire to be better than you in this regard, and defend the rights of people even if they aren't me. Even if I disagree with them.
So you believe that assaulting people because they have different political opinions is a good thing? I just want to be absolutely sure.
Wanting to kill people isn't a political opinion.
Actually ... much of politics is nothing more than who should be killed. That's why there are discussions about the death penalty, to the point where even those against the death penalty have opinions about which crimes it should cover. That's why there are discussions about going to war, against which countries, to what severity, etc. That's why there are discussions about how much force is appropriate to use against law breakers. Just because you think their opinion is monstrous doesn't mean their opinion isn't an opinion.
So again, do you believe assaulting people because they have different political opinions is a good thing? I just want to be absolutely sure.
Most of politics is NOT about killing people and further most politics does NOT match Nazism in terms of either lack of ANY kind of reasoning about the killing or number of people they'd like to have exterminated. So knock it off with the beat your wife question.
The way you avoid the "beat your wife" question is by saying that some political opinions aren't political opinions if you don't like them. But even if you don't like them, even if you find them abhorrent, they are still political opinions.
If you advocate assaulting people who hold fascist beliefs, you are advocating assaulting people based on their political beliefs. If you advocate assaulting people who hold fascist beliefs, you are advocating assaulting people for the crime of wrongthink.
There really is no simpler way to put it. I'm not saying most Nazism matches other political philosophies in degree, but that doesn't make it not a political philosophy.
If you really want to advocate assaulting people for holding the wrong political beliefs, you should be bold enough and proud enough to say so. I just want you to know that you are going down a very dangerous path when you do so.
There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists. - Ennio Flaiano
