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Inasmuch as different parts of society disagree on how to "improve" it, one part does not have the right to censor the other.
by reader5000 7y ago
Inasmuch as different parts of society disagree on how to "improve" it, one part does not have the right to censor the other.
- sagichmal 7y agoYes, parts of society absolutely have the right to censor other parts of society. Just as we have the right to imprison, or regulate, or chide, or squelch. None of these things are sacred and inviolable lines. All of them are tools, which we have the moral obligation to use, judiciously, to improve the human condition.
- reader5000 7y agoFree speech improves the human condition. Therefore, by your own argument, the authorities have the moral obligation to forcibly censor your own anti-free speech comments.
- sagichmal 7y ago> Free speech improves the human condition. Free speech is an amoral tool, which can be used to improve or degrade the human condition, when wielded appropriately. It's our job to decide when and how to use it, and not act naïvely and pretend it's a virtue in itself.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoRacism and white supremacy are not valid viewpoints.
- XaoDaoCaoCao 7y agoWhich means censorship vectors get to wrap things they want censored as "racist". Soviet censorship vectors were able to wrap dissenting viewpoints as "counter-revolutionary" or "bourgeois" without regard for the consistency of content to the wrapper.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoNo, sorry. Racism is pretty damn clear cut.
- XaoDaoCaoCao 7y agoSo let's say I purposely choose to avoid living in areas that don't have a large percentage of a certain minority on the basis of very alarming statistics. Am I an evil racist for putting my individual life and my family's over the ideal of equality? Note I've been homeless before and that experience exposed me to how people act without a system of 24 hour media propoganda to skew the view of such behavior. It doesn't mean that I paint bona fide individuals with stereotypes but when I'm dealing with aggregates...well call me an evil racist. I'd invite you to put your ideology to the test in a situation where it gets stretched to the point of counter-factual absurdity.
- DangitBobby 7y agoYou want it to be, but in practice it's not. Enforcement of immigration policy is seen as racist by some and not by others, for example. So though _you_ claim to know (because obviously _your_ beliefs are correct), people disagree on this point.
- Fins 7y agoThat well might be so, but when people get the power to decide who is a racist, results degenerate very quickly.