you skipped right past the argument i made about nazis congregating to state that a) the nazis must not exist, b) censoring the nazis would make us just as bad, and c) that even if they did exist, it wouldn’t be a big deal. that’s really going to be your end point? that censorship of any kind is equivalent across the political spectrum?

that isn’t just a childish point, it’s outright and provably false. there’s demonstrable evidence to the contrary that states that when you allow nazis access to the public sphere, all they do is attract other fascists to their cause. there’s little to no evidence to suggest that belittling or disproving their points does anything to prevent them from organizing and congregating, unlike denying them access to the same playing field, which does exactly that. you said yourself that they’re too ensconced in their worldview to realize the error of their ways — so what, we give them free advertising space because of some faux-erudite attempt at eradicating censorship? complete rubbish. you know full well there’s nothing censorious about banning symbols of hatred.

“…To maintain a society of tolerance, the tolerant must be intolerant of intolerance” ~ Karl Popper

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