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Is this romantic or a red flag?
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Those problems are deeper than a freedom of speech, and controlling that speech won't and has not fixed the problems that cause them. It's better to keep the openness of expression and tackle the systemic causes of racism and hatred, not try and hide them and let them fester.
Why not both tackle the systemic issues while not allowing people to poison everything with their vile rhetoric.
Out and about Nazis emboldened to do their thing is not a good thing.
The problem with drawing lines is that lines can then be moved. The most obvious gets censored first, then the next, and at some point people can't talk about anything because it is offensive to someone in power. Who decides what is and isn't censorable? If the counter to vile speech is its opposing view treated also openly, hate and violence won't grow under a censorship. Again, it's not the freedom of speech that creates these problems, but other issues in society that make hating others attractive. Ignorance and segregation and pitting one group against another for power purposes.
so you’re saying it’s a slippery slope?
because that’s not a good reason not to do something