FA+
Shop
Regarding Nazis, Hate Speech and the new FA Code of Conduct
8 years ago
"There's better ways of preventing people from listening to them than censorship. "
You are absolutely right. There is.
Because let's be 100% clear. From 1946 to the present, we have had tens of thousands of doctors of every profession analyze, deconstruct and break down every single aspect of Nazi ideology. All the way from the wooby-woo-woo-woo hunt for the Spear of Longinus, to the construction of the Autobahn.
Your contemporary Nazi, neo or otherwise, did not grow up in a test tube, a box of plastic peanuts, or at the bottom of a well. They grew up in a world where the truth of the Nazis and their government, philosophy and politics were on full display. They saw the films, the videos, the pictures and the documentaries, and they said...
"Yay! That's for me!"
And it would not be difficult to divorce the genocide from the politics and philosophy. Not hard at all! The various political parties around the world do it every single day!
But they aren't.
For them, genocide isn't a bug, it's a feature.
So no.
No free speech for Nazis. No free speech, no platform, no tolerance.
I will support maintaining the semblance of law and order, and not actively seek them out for assassination? But any more than that, I will not give.
Send them back to hiding in their holes.
You are absolutely right. There is.
Because let's be 100% clear. From 1946 to the present, we have had tens of thousands of doctors of every profession analyze, deconstruct and break down every single aspect of Nazi ideology. All the way from the wooby-woo-woo-woo hunt for the Spear of Longinus, to the construction of the Autobahn.
Your contemporary Nazi, neo or otherwise, did not grow up in a test tube, a box of plastic peanuts, or at the bottom of a well. They grew up in a world where the truth of the Nazis and their government, philosophy and politics were on full display. They saw the films, the videos, the pictures and the documentaries, and they said...
"Yay! That's for me!"
And it would not be difficult to divorce the genocide from the politics and philosophy. Not hard at all! The various political parties around the world do it every single day!
But they aren't.
For them, genocide isn't a bug, it's a feature.
So no.
No free speech for Nazis. No free speech, no platform, no tolerance.
I will support maintaining the semblance of law and order, and not actively seek them out for assassination? But any more than that, I will not give.
Send them back to hiding in their holes.
Bravo!
After all, it makes them a lot easier to find in the dark places of the world.
They just shouldn't be surprised or offended when the world tells them, in various and imaginative ways, to STFU.
https://xkcd.com/1357/