The fact the government won’t kick your teeth in does not vindicate such unforgiveable ignorance. You can be an asshole for holding certain opinions. You are entitled to believe things, and to say things, which mark you as dangerous, untrustworthy, intolerable, or dumb as a bag of hammers.
Never let ‘you can’ serve as an excuse. Some people are just wrong. Some people are complete assholes. Some people are fucking Nazis. You don’t have to respect one word that comes out of their mouths. All they’ve got is “it’s not illegal for me to be this dense.”
And hey, sometimes? Maybe it should be illegal. A lot of other countries do not in fact allow you to be an outright Nazi. We don’t have to entertain any slippery-slope nonsense, to acknowledge some assholes want genocidal bigotry, and letting them spread that desire is a direct threat to millions of innocent people. If “I am going to kill you with this knife” isn’t protected speech - “we are going to put you all in death camps” is not better.
When the response to “I would defend to the death your right to say that” is “I would make sure you die for doing so,” reconsider.
People’s right to their opinions.
You’re allowed to believe complete horseshit.
You’re allowed to be an outright Nazi.
The fact the government won’t kick your teeth in does not vindicate such unforgiveable ignorance. You can be an asshole for holding certain opinions. You are entitled to believe things, and to say things, which mark you as dangerous, untrustworthy, intolerable, or dumb as a bag of hammers.
Never let ‘you can’ serve as an excuse. Some people are just wrong. Some people are complete assholes. Some people are fucking Nazis. You don’t have to respect one word that comes out of their mouths. All they’ve got is “it’s not illegal for me to be this dense.”
And hey, sometimes? Maybe it should be illegal. A lot of other countries do not in fact allow you to be an outright Nazi. We don’t have to entertain any slippery-slope nonsense, to acknowledge some assholes want genocidal bigotry, and letting them spread that desire is a direct threat to millions of innocent people. If “I am going to kill you with this knife” isn’t protected speech - “we are going to put you all in death camps” is not better.
When the response to “I would defend to the death your right to say that” is “I would make sure you die for doing so,” reconsider.
娑婆诃 (or 太好了 if you’re more Daoist-inclined).
Or if you absolutely must, Amen!
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