The idea that egalitarian democracy, those favoring egalitarian democracy against the moral atrocities of inequality and injustice are, out of some flaky notion of "fairness" required to allow even Nazis, even communists the ability to try to repeat here what they've done in Germany, Austria, the Soviet Union, China, Italy, Cambodia, North Korea, and in countries invaded and forced into the most malignant series of colonial occupations lasting hears and decades, is definitively discrediting of the free speech-free press industry and its patrons in the media.
Those lofty claims of principle, that "we must allow them to speak" really mean we must take the chance on them being able to do here what they did there, it is a pose made from a platform supported by the mountain of millions of the bodies of their victims, it is written in the blood of those who the beneficiaries of that flaky faux morality would see sacrificed so they can feel all pure and free-speechy about themselves, striking the cheapest of theatrical poses in the catalog of cheap theatrical poses and phony moralizing.
So, no, I'm not ashamed to have said what I did in that regard. A more relevant question is why you don't feel ashamed of advocating that we take a real chance on you being wrong and them succeeding in making it happen here. It's not as if we don't have examples of that happening here already, the KKK, lynch law, the legal apparatus that kept Jim Crow in place as the law of the land up till a very few years when it was fought back, only to be resurgent in the Republican-fascist takeover. The genocide of the native people of this continent, the various invasions, occupations and "interventions" such as people like Theodore Roosevelt believed in and engaged in, the eugenics permitted by the Supreme Court, the internment of citizens of the country under the Korematsu decision that John Roberts made a pose of nullifying even as he updated it on behalf of Trump's Muslim ban, . . .
I know most of you free-speechy types are white people, mostly affluent, in the professions, so you are unlikely to be the first victims of your bad gamble, those losses will be paid by people of color, people belonging to the already beleaguered minority groups who you would claim to champion when it's a different context. Poor people, most of all.
To the extent a white gay male who is in one of the groups slated for targeting by those whose ability to recruit and proselytize you champion as some kind of perversion of "principle" I can tell you on my behalf I'd rather you be honest and say you don't really mind all that much if they succeed in doing what they want to do to me. I certainly don't understand why any person of color would go along with you witnessing the resurgence of American apartheid, on both an official and a social level with the rise of Trump. That resurgence promoted primarily in the free press of cabloid TV and hate talk radio and internet fascism and Nazism and the white supremacy of those who cite evolutionary psychology and the such.
It not only can happen here, IT IS HAPPENING HERE, RIGHT NOW. You are a fool for a slogan and a denier of hard reality. In regard to what I said below, this morning, you are an idiot for cheap movie and TV plotting.
Egalitarian democracy, its proponents have every right to favor it over ideologies and other messages of inequality, they have every right to do everything they can to oppose and, yes, suppress fascism, Nazism and communism on the basis of the millions of victims they create when they gain power. There is no coherent moral argument against taking that possibility seriously instead of pretending it is a merely theoretical and so innocuous possibility.
Update: I thought I needed to expand that list of examples of how it not only can but has happened here, I could probably think of new examples every time I reread it for editing.
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