People we despise, sure. But not people who break the social contract. Using their freedom of expression to restrict the freedoms of others, or to advocate for the same. That behaviour violates the contract, and anyone who violates the contract is not covered by it.
Hate speech is one of the first steps of genocide.
Censorship is one of the first steps of totalitarianism.
The best way to build a healthy society is to construct it from one-liners that sound nice, applied without nuance.
Check out the tolerance paradox.
And yelling this is one of the excuses fascists use to just do what they want.
Free speech does not mean being able to do whatever you want.
Fuck Nazis.
Nazis will exist no matter if you allow them to speak or not. This just gives them a convenient excuse for their behavior – “we are being silenced, so we have to resort to violence”.
Stop trying to silence me!
This quote might have worked in another context, but it’s fucking bullshit in the present one. If you allow people to lie and lie and lie without significant pushback, you end up with the shit we are looking at right now.
And your right that is how we got where we are.
