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Originally Posted by Impureclient
Oh you are informed of logical fallacies...
Say hello to my friend, the strawman. This all gets better every post.
My God is better than your God.
My opinion is better than your opinion.
My science is better than your science.
My politics are better than your politics.
This thread reminds me of politicians calling for unity and then immediately out the other side of their mouth for reeducation camps, removal of rights including speech, extreme censorship and anything to silence their opposition.
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It isn't an exaggeration if it is true. Those are prevalent ideas in the two "extremes", so those are not strawman--they are examples. The fact that you see them as exaggerations gives me some hope that you may not be a part of such extremists, even if your sources suggest you could be.
Listen, Germany went through a period post WWII that the US never went through, and it would be a good idea if we did. They teach their kids about the atrocities that occurred in their history. They teach their kids about the dangers of fascism and the types of thinking that leads to fascism. They worked hard to censor and reform hate groups. The tried to remove their platform. It worked. We have more people in the states that celebrate the fascist history of Germany than Germany has.
Similarly, we could use racial reform and anti-fascist education. The censorship of people who would incite insurrection has been shown by their actions on our capital to be a real concern to the safety of our country and the members of congress. I don't know who or what rights you are referring to when you claim rights to speech have been taken or what you mean by extreme censorship. As far as I have seen, the censorship has been to the extremists, so this is where I get concerned again about where your thinking is at.