Re:Seventy years after Adolf Hitler’s death, how Germans see...
by Latty on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:06AM
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I can claim anything is a falsehood, and I can claim anything is hate speech. The ability to deny ideas is the ability to deny all speech. (There are some things we can clearly distinguish as truly wrong speech - 'kill that man', 'there is a fire' when there is no fire, etc..., but ideas and history? That needs to be free game).
Re:Seventy years after Adolf Hitler’s death, how Germans see...
by specialist on Monday December 21, 2015 @10:02AM
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I can claim anything is hate speech.
Yes. An important part of learned helplessness (playing the victim) is ignoring broadly accepted definitions.
The ability to deny ideas is the ability to deny all speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
"In logic and critical thinking, a slippery slope is a logical device in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any rational argument or demonstrable mechanism for the inevitability of the event in question."
Re:Seventy years after Adolf Hitler’s death, how Germans see...
by Chris2048 on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:00PM
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Not sure this is a slippery slope. "It might not happen" isn't really a refutation to caution - the word "ability to" doesn't have the concreteness of outcome that a slippery slope requires.
> So where does it stop?
Your example is the government forcing the teaching of falsehoods, which is wildly different from forbidding the distribution of hate speech.