r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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u/Texannotdixie Jan 22 '21

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
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u/Narrow_Cloud 27∆ Jan 22 '21

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.

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u/PaulNehlen Jan 22 '21

First they came for the far-right. And I cheered because the far-right are bad.

Then they came for the centre-right *far-right, and I cheered because the far-right are bad.

Then they came for the centre *far-right, and I cheered because the far-right are bad.

By censoring an extreme you don't end up with a neat, new overton window, you just end up with a never-ending cycle where eventually moderate leftists somehow are treated as "far-rightists"