Re:Is America having second thoughts about free speech?
by KingMob on Monday February 12, 2018 @08:54PM
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Ahh yes, the "minorities-are-the-real-racists/sexists" argument. I guess for those who have always been on top, attempts to curb their abuses could look like free speech violations.
And don't talk to me about violence like it's equivalent on both sides. I had the KKK try to march through my town after Trump was elected. I went to UVA and probably walked past where Heather Heyer was murdered a hundred times in school. The only killings from the left are from isolated nuts. The killings from fascists/supremacists are organized.
> Are you prepared to defend a tolerant society against leftists whose intolerance for disagreement extends even unto violence?
I'm not worried, because the left is punching Nazis and white supremacists. Ask your grandfather if you need to understand why punching Nazis rather than giving them platforms is important.
> In this light, rather than treat individual speech as absolute, overall free speech can be maximized by not tolerating those whose speech silences others.
Taken to the extreme that allows the powerful to silence anyone they choose. You can always argue "I'm offended" by your remarks, therefore you must be silent. But as we've seen (for example, claims that "it's impossible to be racist against white people" and simultaneously defining every conservative position as racist or otherwise prejudiced) the left defines this so that they can do and say anything they like, while the right is always silenced.
> Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
Are you prepared to defend a tolerant society against leftists whose intolerance for disagreement extends even unto violence?