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by iratewizard 3279 days ago
Is the latter dangerous because it is dissent? It sounds like we are now defining a framework for what dissent is acceptable and it seems to align to a dominant political ideology. Sort of defeats the point of dissent.
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It's dangerous because it evokes a specific fear that's likely to inspire action. You could swap migrants and Irish in an area with a sufficient Irish population and it would still be true.

> the migrants suck

Is pretty harmless, while

> Keep the horny Irish teenagers away from our daughters

might well lead to someone assaulting people they perceived to be Irish teenagers who were getting too friendly with their daughters.

Censorship is always a framework for defining acceptable dissent (or deviance, if you prefer).