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    1 year ago

    There’s no such thing as “So hateful it’s harmful”, that is a facade or a tool of deception used to censor someone because the other side can’t prove it to be false.

    You cherry-picked the comment you quoted, leaving out important context: “Their view is so hateful that even giving a platform by engaging with it can be harmful.” My reading of this point is that giving a hateful idea a platform to spread is a reason to disengage with it, because by engaging with it you are giving validity to it in the mind of the author of that idea.

    Even so, this is such a strange statement for you to make. So strange that I simply have to ask further: How do you reconcile this idea of yours with both the continued existence of antisemitism online, and being the mod for the !judaism@lemmy.ca community? Don’t you see antisemitism as a hateful set of beliefs that should be eliminated? That it should not be given a platform to spread? Of course, by your definition that would be “censorship”.



  • You do understand that when someone discusses their beliefs, and those beliefs are hateful, then they have actually caused harm and damage to others, right? They took the action of espousing those beliefs, and they should be accepting of the consequences of doing so.

    Reading between the lines of your comment, you seem to be trying to bait others into saying something like “I want censorship of beliefs”, in an attempt to then turn around and feel justified in your beliefs because others “want to censor you”. If you are truly trying to do this, please have some dignity and stop. You are arguing like a child.