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by philipallstar 265 days ago
You're the perfect person to have illustrated this. Someone could've committed no crime, as you're claiming for yourself with your symbol, and you'd still want them ejected because of a symbol.

You are in principle no different to the people you're complaining about. You've just got a smaller set of symbols than they do that you don't like.

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I'm not a liberal, I don't worship law as a basis for ethics. Hence why I specified how I think things should work under liberal democracy (not arrested for the symbol) vs how I think things should work under other systems. Under other systems the word "crime" isn't really meaningful, more of concern is what is considered disruptive, violent, antisocial, or harmful to other people, which describes perfectly the wearing of nazi symbology as well as the ideology itself.

Nazis should be ejected from society. Liberal democracy shouldn't have laws that allow arresting people for speech. Those aren't mutually exclusive concepts, that's just an anarchist explaining to you their ideology as well as how they apply their values under the current system.

Tell me, straight faced, that displaying a pair of antifa flags is as bad as displaying a swastika.