[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.