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by anigbrowl 3479 days ago
A giant straw man from beginning to end. The blog post doesn't object to the existence or even dissemination of the ideas, but to the use of the university library to operate a covert recruitment campaign - an operational issue rather than the purely theoretical one you posit.

All a ban will do is give a weapon to suppress ideas...

Of course, nothing in the article mentioned a ban on any ideas or advocated for the suppression of any books. The implicit argument that unwillingness to support a particular organization equates to suppression of ideas is fallacious, and I'm inclined to think that it's wholly disingenuous on your part.

Lest there be any doubt, I have no desire whatsoever to suppress, censor, or otherwise limit the spread of 'dark enlightenment' ideas. On the other hand I feel no hesitation in pointing out that they're tightly correlated with a long-running political program whose ultimate aim is the establishment of a white ethnostate within the boundaries of the USA, and whose architects are on record as considering ethnic cleansing or straight-up genocide as acceptable strategies in the pursuit of that end.

tl;dr protecting the free speech rights of Nazis doesn't alter the fact that they're Nazis.