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Re:Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even... by tomp on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:37AM (#23640563)
> To have a tolerant and open society you need to be intolerant to those who are intolerant

Do you have any proof of that? From what I can see, the US has been, for the past 200 years, the most tolerant to intolerance, and also (one of) the most tolerant. Weimar Republic (pre-Nazi Germany), had prohibitions on anti-Semitism, yet it didn't help. I'm sure there are also counterexamples, but regardless your claim doesn't exactly follow.

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Re:Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even... by fzeroracer on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:45AM (#23650272)
Is this ignoring that we not only had a Nazi movement back before the war but also the fact that we put Asian Americans into camps, had a long period of treating Irish Americans as 2nd class citizens? This is without going into the big issues of slavery much of which still show signs today in how our police system treats black Americans.

What part of all of that makes us the most tolerant exactly?

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Re:Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even... by tomp on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:23AM (#23650444)
Compared to other countries during the same historic periods. E.g. not many other countries went to war to stop slavery. Maybe the UK? Not many.
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