RE: The You Can't Make This Shit Up Department
July 12, 2014 at 9:01 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2014 at 9:06 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 8, 2014 at 7:49 pm)Blackout Wrote: Still wanting to know why is this even legal, I know this sounds authoritarian but dangerous ideologies and political orientations based on racism, xenophobia, segregation, discrimination and unfounded elitism should be made illegal to propagate and constituting parties should be illegal too.
Because suppressing those ideologies drives them underground, while addressing them in the marketplace of ideas lets everyone see exactly how wrong they are.
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant", and so on.
Besides, by outlawing this stuff, you make it impossible to see the dumbfucks quickly. 'Tis better to have them announcing themselves, it seems to me.
(July 11, 2014 at 2:32 pm)Blackout Wrote: Oh and read the whole argument, because we see the propaganda itself as a bad-doing, not as a potential, we see it as harmful in it's essence, it doesn't matter if other results come as a consequence, the act of propagating itself is already considered harmful and a crime.
The idea that what you say harms me in the absence of action on your part is highly debateable.
I pprefer freedom of thought and trust myself to winnow out the assholes, rather than trusting the government to not abuse such sweeping authority.
