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> What if a political opponent's main platform position and primary rhetorical tactic is to make discriminatory statements?

Censorship is never the solution. Censorship is the problem. Keep censoring idiots instead of demonstrating they are idiots and you end up making them out to be poor democratic martyrs instead.

Have they learned nothing from the history of fascist europe?



A privately owned and operated web forum isn't exactly comparable to fascist Europe. Don't be disingenuous.


> Keep censoring idiots instead of demonstrating they are idiots and you end up making them out to be poor democratic martyrs instead.

Trump got far and away the majority of news coverage in the run up to the 2016 election. Everything he said was breathlessly reported, fact checked, and sometimes mocked for its inanity. That did not work out well.




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