[cyberpunk]

Eh, maybe I would actually.

Firstly, I don't give enough of a fuck about what any individual thinks and I certainly don't do background checks on conference speakers.

Secondly, where do you draw the line? Shop workers? Hair dressers? Your taxi driver? Many of those in the country in which I am an immigrant would gladly forcibly deport me and separate me from my family; but I don't run scared enough of them to try to silence them or hide from them.

Also, I think you're being somewhat dramatic here saying he openly called for imprisonment and executions, but please provide sources if I'm wrong.

[edent]

I've literally asked a taxi driver to let me out early because he started a racist rant. With a hairdresser, I'd leave a bad review (never argue with someone holding scissors).

The thing is, now that you do know someone's views - what are you going to do?

People with abhorrent views should learn that people disagree with them. Otherwise they will continue to spill their toxic poison everywhere.

[cyberpunk]

Don't you realise this cuts both ways though? Your views are abhorrent to them, why are theirs worth less than yours?

For sure I don't agree with those people, but they absolutely have the same rights as we do to have their own opinions. Trying to silence them just makes you as bad as they are. We can't change the current state of global discourse, but we can each be more tolerant of each other and that starts with ourselves.

[edent]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

[baggy_trough]

It's kind of amazing when leftists post this unironically, given recent events.

[__loam]

You mean like the president trying to send the military into our cities?

[benmmurphy]

I think democracy and the market are amazing tools. We can strongly disagree with people but are able to peacefully choose how we are governed without resorting to violence and then we are able to peacefully trade and exchange with people we otherwise hate to our mutual benefit. This is an amazing piece of technology that makes the world a much better place but people seem very determined to throw it away.