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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Suma who wrote (68247)5/24/2008 6:43:15 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 542963
 
We as individuals can try to control speech all we want- as long as we don't use the state to do it. We can shout down Klansmen. We can turn our back on them. We can individually urge other people not to listen to them. In fact, if we don't do that, are we not complicit with the Klansmen, at least in our passivity? As citizens we have a duty to try to individually and personally try to control hate speech- that's what civilization is all about, imo. You don't just ignore a man shouting in the street that all Jews should be killed in ovens (for example). Ignoring that sort of thing can be dangerous.
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