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handofdave

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Re: It's really gonna kick off (well....maybe)

Oct 22, 2009, 20:31

It's a pain in the ass to have to suffer the free speech of people like Griffin, I'm not denying that. It means that we have to constantly rebut whatever they're spinning. But in a way that keeps us on our toes and galvanizes us.

And I was being a bit general about the venue: I suppose if I were the president of the BBC I'd tell the fascists to go find some other way to spread their message, I wouldn't accommodate 'em.

My point is, the denial of free speech goes both ways.... If we in the west actively seek to silence it, we have no right to bitch if others do. And that'd be a terrible surrender if, for example, we no longer had the moral authority to decry the silencing of human rights activists struggling under tyrannical governments, for example.

I hold fast to what I said earlier. The best way to shut down a fascist isn't to make a boogyman of them, it's to make a fool of them, loudly, and often. Boogymen are feared... fools are derided.

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