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LostYonder wrote

Speech is power! How can speech that oppresses others be classified as "free"? If you want to express an opinion, it's all yours. But it is not the same thing as articulating facts.

Opinions that are oppressive need to be addressed, confronted, and transformed and not just given a "free" platform to be expressed and circulated, given them a semblance of being fact.

The issue is not whether people have the right, freedom to express their oppressive opinions, but how does one challenge them so that they can be transformed in a creative manner? Our current response seems to be shaped by the idea of free speech. We punch them in the face, yell the truth in their face, try to reason with them - all of which will not transform anything (though the punching certainly is the most powerful!). That is we employ our free speech right to counter their hate filled free speech...

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MHC wrote

Indeed Hitller and Goebbels did a great deal of harm by unleashing the media for their cause!

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