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RE: Greetings From George: Intolerance Is Now Tolerance!
You can't generalize such an argument. Of course it's not okay to physically harm someone JUST because their views are different from yours. In the case of Nazis their views are different and their views involve the violent extermination of other races and promotion of their own. Neo-Nazism is just a different point of view, it's an ideology that aims to spread its message of white supremacy.
So do you tolerate this ideology? Or would you want to restrict their freedom by, let's say, classifying their views as hatespeech?
Their views are hate speech and tolerating hate speech is dangerous.
We will have to disagree on that. I think intolerance is dangerous, not tolerance.
To me the idea that someone (who?) Decided what can be said and what not is dangerous. If the problem of Nazi ideology is that it does not tolerate others, how is not tolerating its proponents doing any good? It actually seems like mimicking their behavior and thus spreading it. Sometimes by fighting the monster we become the monster...
There is one thing about 'hatespeech' you may not have considered: by banning certain views you take away from the public the ability to evaluate all views and arguments. See what I mean? That seems rather patronizing.
who defines hate speech
I just checked the first amendment...didn't see it.
Please enlighten me.