and you are here saying you “object to is a broader ethos where the notion of respecting a person’s right to collect and curate their thoughts [we need to KILL LGBTQ+ people] at their own discretion is spat on” and wonder why people are calling your position supporting Nazis,
I’m not wondering really. It’s conceptual railroading, a lot like “protect the children” or appealing to fear of terrorism as an excuse for attacking civil liberties. You are using the emotional weight of fear/anger at admittedly reprehensible views to force the conclusion “that is how it works”; that is, that people have no agency and words are like a virus for them, with the natural conclusion that what they see or express must be decided for them, which then applies generally. If you don’t think that would apply generally, where’s the line?
where is the line? how about inciting violence or discrimination against any group / peoples? I think that’s a good line to start with.
As for the rest of your statement, you seem to have this unshakable belief that evil is something foreign to most people, that people wouldn’t follow along in blaming some minority group and then doing unspeakable things to these groups, you act as if the population has some innate rational firewall protecting them from becoming Nazis, and History has shown us, time and time and time and time and time again that this just isn’t true, hell in the USA you burned down entire city districts because the black man was plotting something, sikhs and Muslims got shot in drives after 9/11 because FOXNews decided to spew anti-middleeastern brown people rhetoric, the fucking Nazis, Belgian Congo, Turkey, the English empire, etc… etc… etc… they all started with some people spouting stuff.
I’m not wondering really. It’s conceptual railroading, a lot like “protect the children” or appealing to fear of terrorism as an excuse for attacking civil liberties. You are using the emotional weight of fear/anger at admittedly reprehensible views to force the conclusion “that is how it works”; that is, that people have no agency and words are like a virus for them, with the natural conclusion that what they see or express must be decided for them, which then applies generally. If you don’t think that would apply generally, where’s the line?
where is the line? how about inciting violence or discrimination against any group / peoples? I think that’s a good line to start with.
As for the rest of your statement, you seem to have this unshakable belief that evil is something foreign to most people, that people wouldn’t follow along in blaming some minority group and then doing unspeakable things to these groups, you act as if the population has some innate rational firewall protecting them from becoming Nazis, and History has shown us, time and time and time and time and time again that this just isn’t true, hell in the USA you burned down entire city districts because the black man was plotting something, sikhs and Muslims got shot in drives after 9/11 because FOXNews decided to spew anti-middleeastern brown people rhetoric, the fucking Nazis, Belgian Congo, Turkey, the English empire, etc… etc… etc… they all started with some people spouting stuff.