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not everyone who doesn't want to censor nazis is a nazi. while i think hate has no place anywhere online, i agree that free speech is important. substack should definetely stop someone hateful from earning money on that platform one way or another.
They can't. That would break the illusion of being an "enlightened centrist."
I.E. votes right wing, sees themselves as slightly more moderate, but sympathizer and defender of the far right and Nazis.
Or one of the many foreign troll farms found to be pushing the "enlightened centrist" narrative.
i'm by no means any kind of centrist or right leaning and i do have very strong opinions about nazis. but free speech on the internet is a very important thing, while i also believe hate speech should be censored.
tl;dr, conflicting opinions != Nazi, dumbass.
It's not the conflicting opinions. It's your lack of commitment to your own professed opinions. You literally stated you believe hate speech should be censored. But all your arguments to this point are that they should not. Where is your consistency?
it's almost like i have two opinions that conflict each other...
That's cold cognitive dissonance. And it is not something to be proud of or a good thing.
Why are you so combative? You responded to a post rebutting a desire to censor speech from a legal perspective. Being opposed to defining any speech as illegal and being a nazi sympathizer are two very different things. You do not, in fact, have to choose one.
i don't think i will, this is complicated and i don't care enough. i am not taking sides.
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Won't work here, on here it is black or white, either hate Nazis and anything that even approaches it or you are one. Every other subject in the world will be grey and nuanced, and they will argue minor points to death, except for this.
If you do not support removing Nazis from the public sphere, you aren't necessarily a Nazi. But you do support Nazis. That didn't make a difference between 1939 and 1945 and it doesn't make a difference now.
I agree if we're talking about literal, actual Nazis waving the flag and everything. The pushback, which I agree with, begins when people start calling everyone a Nazi, or a fascist. It has got ridiculous, I'm embarrassingly leftist and get accused of it.
You might complain when that practice of conflating slightly differing leftist views with fascism backfires and results in people accidentally defending literal Nazis, but you shouldn't have diluted the term in the first place.
These are literal, actual Nazis waving the flag and everything.
From the article:
Yeah, I get that.
I'm just replying to tell you I hear you. We definitely don't want to lose the weight that word carries. I'm glad the term is being accurately used in this case.