Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content
by fastball on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:19PM
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Oh god, please not this parodox of intolerance stuff again.
It is a wholly untested and unproven idea. Stop parroting it as if it is something more than that.
Regardless, it is generally agreed that Popper was not talking about intolerant ideas but intolerant behavior i.e. violence and forced suppression. Popper's actual words were "they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols", that last bit being pretty important.
Denying the Holocaust, detestable though it may be, does not forcibly violate the freedoms of anyone else.
It is a wholly untested and unproven idea. Stop parroting it as if it is something more than that.
Regardless, it is generally agreed that Popper was not talking about intolerant ideas but intolerant behavior i.e. violence and forced suppression. Popper's actual words were "they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols", that last bit being pretty important.
Denying the Holocaust, detestable though it may be, does not forcibly violate the freedoms of anyone else.