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Re:Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Ci... by eropple on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @10:05PM (#8765799)
There's a crucial difference between "accept" and "tolerate" and there's an even wider difference between "the government must tolerate that speech" and "I must tolerate that speech."

I roundly reject the speech of shitty people. (I've switched tabletop game stores because I have no patience for GamerGate partisans, for example.) While I don't agree with the notion that this movie is deserving of rejection, I sympathize and anybody who feels that way is not somehow wrong by refusing to accept and patronize it.

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Re:Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Ci... by Retra on Thursday December 18, 2014 @01:35PM (#8768853)
Well that's just equivocating. You accept that they are allowed to say those things. Or you accept that other people are allowed to hear them. The speech is _able_ to be accepted, even if you don't _in particular_ accept it yourself.
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Re:Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Ci... by eropple on Thursday December 18, 2014 @08:15PM (#8770681)
Where is anyone saying they can't say it?
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Re:Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Ci... by Retra on Sunday December 21, 2014 @02:45AM (#8779231)
Because if you say something _should_ be done, you are making a moral command. There is no point in tolerating things that you think shouldn't happen; that's just conflating your preferences with your ability to enforce them.
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