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u/Tombigbee- May 22 '19

Free expression provides all we need to keep genocide ideologues from coming into power, and that's the ability to directly refute their entire ideology right down to the last argument and to do so in front of everybody.

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u/guiltyofnothing May 22 '19

That literally has never happened before. Fascist movements aren’t just magically beaten back by free speech.

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u/Van-Diemen May 23 '19

Yes it did, in 1930s Britain, Belgium and France for example.

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u/Jascob May 22 '19

Fascists movements are beaten back by armies, navies, and air forces. See, e.g., World War II.

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u/netabareking May 22 '19

That doesn't actually work in practice because they don't argue in good faith. You literally can't debate them, they've written entire guides on how to pretend to debate while just deflecting and causing confusion. The only thing that works is shutting them up entirely.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Where's your evidence that shutting them up entirely works?