[wasx]

>The more forcefully and loudly people try to suppress certain ideas, the more they are afraid those ideas might be right.

What bollocks, most "ideas" people are trying to surpress like white nationalism and sexism aren't being surpress because people are secretly scared that whites are the master race or women are inferior, they're being surpress because they're objectively harmful ideas that have caused enormous suffering throughout human history.

The idea that people are trying to stop the spread of these ideologies because they're "secretly scared they're correct" is nothing but a way for people who hold these harmful views to justify having them through defending some self delusional "truth" they've substantiated purely through nonsense.

[skookumchuck]

It's unnecessary to suppress nazi speech in a free country with free speech. They get nowhere. In fact, trying to forcibly suppress them just legitimizes them.

You'll never convince people they're wrong by violently suppressing them.

[skookumchuck]

Or by downvoting them :-)

[abusoufiyan]

What...? You do realize openly Nazi parties are making electoral gains in Europe right now...

[PhasmaFelis]

> It's unnecessary to suppress nazi speech in a free country with free speech. They get nowhere.

Tell that to Germany in 1920.

[skookumchuck]

The nazi party had their own private army, the brownshirts, that they used to violently suppress other parties and discourage non-supporters from voting. Once in power, the Night of the Long Knives was used to get rid of any opposition.

[PhasmaFelis]

Eventually, yes. It started out as just talk, as most movements do. Shame nobody suppressed them before they got that far.

[skookumchuck]

They did. Hitler spent time in jail.

[PhasmaFelis]

Clearly not enough.