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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Protest bad ideas, not speech itself. There are laws against incitement, slander, etc., but they are very specific and they are applied without regard to viewpoint. Those restrictions are politically neutral.
You are advocating shutting down "hate speech" which is neither specific nor neutral. If it were to become acceptable, I promise you would come to regret it. Imagine how your political opponents would define hate speech to silence your ideas.
Dude, your position is essentially "never argue or else" when it comes to speech confronting speech. Speech is ideas too my friend.
You say I am advocating shutting down and that is a mistake to say. I don't have time to debate the 'morals and ethics of Germany editing nazis out of video games' because I have done that before.
And significantly people are using their free speech to lie about protesters, Muslims, Immigrants, Natives, Protectors, Inner-City dwelling Blacks, and the Holocaust to name a few, which is a much bigger priority in all of our face immediately to use free speech to confront free speech.
And, if a fear-monger gets "shut down", and they didn't have a reasonable concern that lasted beyond the mongered fear- I did not cause that fear being mongered, but it is in my world.
Don't yell fire in a theater metaphorically or you might draw a huge crowd and corner authority into knee-jerking around.