This pseudo-Voltaire bullshit about granting Nazis free speech is dripping with privilege. If you are not white, straight etc, Nazis represent an existential threat. They want to kill you. Are minorities expected to just lie back and take it because hitting Nazis makes you "just as bad as the Nazis"? The liberal (European definition, sorry for any confusion) argument that if the ideas are in the open then they will be struck down doesn't apply when the only language they use to advocate these ideas is violence. They cannot participate in the marketplace of ideas because as a society most of our countries have decided that violence is not how we solve problems in the day-to-day.
By advocating such a violent ideology, fascists have excluded themselves from the democratic realm of free speech. To allow them in is just advocating inaction in the face of people who will exploit that inaction to kill us.
Saying we are not really tolerant unless we tolerate intolerance is like saying that we are not really for equality unless we respect the right of inequality to be equal.
I have a sneaky suspicion that "free speech" arguments about fascists, when they are not used earnestly in ignorance by people who have never had to feel a fascist boot at their neck, are used by people who would secretly be very happy with the rise of fascism once more.
Sorry for the rant. I am seeing the rise of fascism in my home country (Germany) once more, and on reddit as well, and it is quite terrifying.
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