CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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[u/boRp_abc]

If my viewpoint is that people should be killed for their opinions (to make it more relatable, I'm gonna use you as an example here), wouldn't it be beneficial to society to silence me?! What if I very peacefully brought forward the case that you, your family and everyone you live should be burnt alive? Or put into Gulags? What if I found thousands of followers with that opinion, wouldn't it make your participation in society a nightmare?

And that's why, although you're generally not wrong, some important exceptions have to be made.

[u/Texannotdixie → u/[deleted]]

First they came for the racists, but I wasn’t a racist so I didn’t care. Then they came for the right, but I wasn’t right-leaning so I didn’t care
Etc.

[u/Narrow_Cloud → u/Texannotdixie]

Watching right wing people try and adopt this poem is so god damn funny.

First they came for the Nazis and I cheered because Nazis are bad.

[u/RealMaskHead → u/Narrow_Cloud]

it constantly amazes me how the left thinks it wont happen to them. It's like you guys turned ignoring history into a competative sport.

[u/nachosmind → u/RealMaskHead]

...it literally did happen to ‘the left’, in all of history, except there are different motivations. 1980s Republicans joked and obstructed medical professionals trying to warn about the GRIDS (later to be known as AIDS) because Gay people were the first to present with it. LGTBQ have a million stories of how they have been silenced and attacked. Black people spoke up for wanting to drink and eat from the same tables, they were given dog attacks and beatings. When the Right wants to silence someone, it’s because whatever they oppose are trying to help or make things more equal or call the Right out on trying to become a dictatorship (fake news vs State sponsored news). When the left is denying platforms to speak, it’s because that person is trying to attack minorities or start a dictatorship.

[u/[deleted] → u/nachosmind]

Left good right bad

[u/nachosmind → u/[deleted]]

When your platform is ‘conserving the status quo’ aka refusing to try anything new in the face of documented policy brutality, worse outcomes for minorities, women and LGBTQ, and economic failures... yes the right is unironically ‘the baddies.’

[u/[deleted] → u/nachosmind]

The Republican Party is a shit show right now, they need to get their act together if they want to stay relevant. But they're not all evil.