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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
If the line at which we suppress someone's speech is advocating genocide, I think I'm more or less okay with that. I think the state should be doing it though, and certainly not private citizens. More than that, though, I'm worried about the inevitable broadening of the category of "people whose views are odious enough to us that we can attack them just for thinking the way they do". I've said it before, that doesn't end well at all, for anyone.
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Yeah, I guess what I always go back to is that denying someone an audience isn't the same as suppressing their speech. I kicked a dude out of a party I was hosting a few years ago because he went off on an anti-semitic tirade. If I tell him he can't come back to future events at my house because of his anti-semitic views, I'm not suppressing is right to speak. I'm invoking my right not to listen to him.