"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense..." - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill [970x1000]

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[–]Zombi 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

While I agree with this quote in its entirety, there's always a little voice in the back of my head that speaks up in regards to certain ideologies and their tendencies to call for violence or oppression.

Is inciting violence ok? Is calling for other's rights to be oppressed ok?

If the answer to either of these questions is "no", then what is the next course of action? I don't want to live in a world where I am censored, but I also don't want to live in a world where dangerous and oppressive ideologies can easily propagate. If a certain message is proven to rile people up and be objectively dangerous to society, how do we deal with those issues without becoming hypocrites? You may say reason will triumph, but humanity has shown many times throughout history that the most extreme and dangerous mentalities have no regard for reason.

[–]DegenerateFurfag69 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is inciting violence ok? Is calling for other's rights to be oppressed ok?

The fact that antifa does this shows that they're a threat to freedom. When /r/ForwardsFromHitler thinks it's okay to punch "Nazis" but vice versa isn't okay, they've proven they aren't low-RWAs. In Altemeyer's data, low RWAs punished the crime equally regardless of the victim and the offender--it was authoritarians who were okay with crimes against people they didn't like.