Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "The Case AGAINST Free Speech?" video.
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What a dumbass argument. "If we allow Nazis to march in the street, it prevents us asking why Nazis are marching in the street!" The answer to one man's speech, even "hate speech" isn't a suppression of their speech, it's using your own speech to push back. You want to stop Nazis and KKK members marching in your street? Gather as many people as you can, line the street, and laugh hysterically at them. If everywhere they try to intimidate people into accepting them is met with raucous laughter and teasing, they'll figure out their message isn't working. And you want a chilling effect to freedom to speak your mind, invent "hate speech" laws, and then apply them to whatever you want. People in Canada and the UK have been arrested for hate speech and weren't being hateful, but because they were speaking about a protected minority, something itself that is anathema to genuine freedom, they were put on trial or fined.
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