The far left extremists on Twitter are still there, spreading hate, and never got banned. Why so much attention to the far-right?
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Darrell brooks drove a car into a crowd of people.
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Drag story hour is speech. Far right activists have been showing up and physically assaulting people to silence them, moderate right politicians are trying to pass laws against them or simply defund libraries to silence the speech they find repugnant. So called bastions of free speech: Gab, Parler, Truth: they all silence anything to the left of their worldview.
What percentage of Republicans physically assault people to silence them?
Weird question, what's the point?
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> You must understand that there are people out there primarily driven by fear and hatred, that, once given positions of power, will use that power to denigrate or otherwise erode the humanity of people they simply don't like. Sounds like both current-day US political parties, so we're not doing a very good job at preventing this.
No, it doesn't, unless you're feigning stupidity. But in case you're not and actually attempting a point, let's review some current social issues and see if you can notice any trends: Climate change: the GOP more or less does not acknowledge this reality; former POTUS removed US from the Paris Climate Accords. Abortion / healthcare: attempts to overturn the Affordable Care Act have almost all come from GOP affiliates…
Think about why this argument doesn't work. It has to do with symmetry.
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Paradox of tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
^ ^ ^ THIS! ^ ^ ^ The one thing a tolerant society can NOT tolerate is intolerance itself. If allowed to set root, intolerance will take over and destroy the tolerant society. The intolerant will be loud and aggressive, working to silence everyone else. Eventually, it's over. Just like the fact that people who want to live self-determining lives in a self-governing democracy must be always better armed and prepared t…
That, plus the ability to define intolerance, gives authoritarian control.
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Darrell brooks drove a car into a crowd of people.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/darr...
Never heard of this so looked it up. Dude had an argument with his ex while in a car, hit her a few times, she managed to escape, he drove into a parade some time later. The motive behind the attack is unknown. What does this have to do with the parent post?
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BS. Far right is both openly pro censorship and also works hard at silencing opposition. They also complained about being treated unfairly even when they are given much more leeway then their opposition
4chan is considered "far right" because they don't censor speech
Yeah, and the blatant antisemitism there has nothing to do with it.
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#68No one is forcing us to follow these figures on Twitter or vote for their party. Let the party members say what they like within the law. Debunk if it need be, and let adults decide for themselves what the truth is. If authoritarians try to stop us hearing from a political party, they remove our agency. And we don’t like that. Ever heard of the Streisand Effect?
Ever heard of Hitler?
They let him talk, and talk and talk, it ended up with most of my ancestors dead.
Some speech calls for violence and dehumanization against minorities, it should be banned.
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#69The far left extremists on Twitter are still there, spreading hate, and never got banned. Why so much attention to the far-right?
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There's certainly a greater threat from right-wing extremists, but you'd have to be living in quite a filter bubble to have missed the "fiery but mostly peaceful" protests over the last few years, or any of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shootin...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/brett-kavana...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_an...
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Drag story hour is speech. Far right activists have been showing up and physically assaulting people to silence them, moderate right politicians are trying to pass laws against them or simply defund libraries to silence the speech they find repugnant. So called bastions of free speech: Gab, Parler, Truth: they all silence anything to the left of their worldview.
What percentage of Republicans physically assault people to silence them?
> What percentage of Republicans physically assault people to silence them?
What percentage does it take for you to consider it a problem?