Love the crocodile tears. “Oh, they were doctored.” “I’m sorry [for saying racist things and wishing for gas chambers], and I take full responsibility.” “I should have been more careful with the people I trusted.” Yeah, nobody is buying your bullshit anymore; you’ve said, “It’s just a joke, bro,” one too many times.
Nazis can get fucked with a cactus.
Absolutely nothing about this is surprising to me in the least. What is surprising, however, is how much people recognize this is a serious problem that seems to continue to get worse, and yet people will insist that free speech is more important. We’ve placed restrictions on yelling fire in a theater when there is none, because it causes harm to society to do it. Why, similarly, can we not place restrictions on obviously hateful and intolerant speech? Certainly those which have larger platforms and opportunity to sew this intolerance and erode democracy should have more scrutiny, no?
People do not understand freedom of speech. All it means is that the government cannot arrest you for saying somethnig, it does not mean “freedom from consequences” or that anything that is not the government cannot shut that shit down, which they absolutely should do.
Social shaming and banning of certain speech should absolutely be done.
As for the government, well, we aren’t a fan of them, but we’re also not a fan of cops, jails or the injustice system, so it’s better that way for now.
Because that starts us down an even worse path.
This should be illegal. Two world wars fought over this kind of harmful ideology.
Honestly I’m kind of surprised (but really not) that we didn’t make being a far-right Nazi illegal back in the 40s/50s
I mean, that’s the time period when the united states went hard af against a breath of communism with McCarthyism.
“Turn me on, dead man” —The Beatles
If you are referencing ‘backward masking’, then that is conspiracy theory nonsense.
Usually, I’d have a diatribe. Here, I’m just realizing this is all worse than I thought. They’re intentionally going multigenerational on hate.
Fuck all of them. Without lube.
