| > Nazism has only been suppressed in Germany Yes, I thought it was obvious from the context. The original version of Nazism was suppressed by invading their country, killing 7 million people in the process, hunting their leaders, etc. > the Roman Empire Hm... They were conquered by foreigners, and the empire desintegrated, but it's debatable whether the real change in culture was internal or not. You're right and it doesn't fit here. > Is just suppression of speech actually effective? This is a different question then... You're asking if suppression of speech with tactics you deem acceptable is actually effective. I don't know. I do know that killing people who hold certain ideas is often effective, and that was the point I was trying to make. Merely putting people in jail for violating the free speech laws might not be enough (I don't think just imprisoning dissidents without the threat of capital punishement or outright genocide has ever been tried at scale). So maybe we don't disagree as much and we were actually arguing for different views, right? |