• CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Freedom of speech is when you don't have any actual freedom of speech, and the less actual freedom of speech you have, the more freedom of speech it is

    • pisshuffer_supreme [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Freedom of speech is when I can shout racial slurs at people, no :freeze-peach: is when someone tries to do factual reporting

    • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Fuck freedom of speech. That's Marcuse's Repressive Tolerance. Intolerance to prevailing social norms is a requisite for true tolerance because the radical oppression of attitudes anathema to true tolerance is the only way to uproot the deeply ingrained false conception of tolerance that is the result of industrialized society.

      "You are dictatorial." My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

      -- Mao Zedong