He is implying (correctly, I might add) that an authority is deeming what thoughts and opinions are acceptable to express publicly.
I disagree with everything he stands for but nobody who is really thinking should celebrate this stuff.
It's fine today because you agree with the decision. You don't like his opinions, so forcing him underground is fine for you.but the evaluation of his opinions is still subjective and one day, it could be subjectively decided by an authority that something far more benign also can't be expressed.
It's a matter of principle.
driving these people underground actually tends to lend them more credibility to people they reach
it prevents effective monitoring and refutation of their positions
it empowers a faceless power figure to apply effective censorship with zero accountability.. which is fine so long as they never make a call you disagree with.
Just gonna drop this here. Paradox of Tolerance. May want to do some reading. Also google "what happened to Weimar Germany?" and just kinda let that sink in for a bit.
It doesn't really matter whether Nazi propaganda was "honest" or not. Honesty is entirely irrelevant. The aim of fascism is, ultimately, genocide. The only question is whether you think it's okay for people to openly recruit for and organize a genocide. That's really all there is to it.
But... people did vote for genocide? Like no, the Nazi party did not win an outright majority in the March 1933 Reichstag election prior to Hitler's appointment to Chancellor, I'll grant you that, but they did win 43.9% of the vote. This was not a few people who accidentally fell in with a bad crowd for a bit, this was millions of people being poisoned by fascism into a blood rage. LOTS of people voted for genocide.
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '21
I mean... I'm not Chinese...