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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by anigbrowl on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:53PM (#22206782)
Yes, extremist bigots do tend to favor deplatforming: they just want to deplatform a different group.

I'm not talking about deplatforming, I'm talking about the sort of extremist bigots who advocate, organize, or engage in murdering people. You are free to present deplatforming as an equal ill to that if you wish.

If we behave like them we are no better than them. We on the left can't claim tolerance if we only tolerate people we agree with.

Tolerating disagreement and tolerating murder are not really equivalent. You're not obliged to give someone a hug if they're trying to stab you, for example.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:52PM (#22226792)
> You are free to present deplatforming as an equal ill to that if you wish.

Sigh. Can we not do the obvious straw man arguments?

> Tolerating disagreement and tolerating murder are not really equivalent.

That's true.

Bigots and murderers are also not really equivalent. Nobody is talking about tolerating murderers, so again, let's try to not toss around straw man arguments.

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