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Topic	What would be the downside of making racism, Nazism, etc. illegal?
Fecundity 09/18/17 11:21:53 AM #7:	Burgess posted... Where would it stop. Wherever we say it does? Isn't our democracy actually more vulnerable to corrosion because racism is allowed to proliferate, not less? I get there's a slippery slope argument against prohibiting any speech, but doesn't allowing public displays of racism open our government up to the threat of demagogic takedown, whereas that would be harder if we were more like Europe? <cite>Fecundity posted [p:886821414] in What would... [t:75787883]...</cite> <quote><cite>Burgess posted...</cite> <quote>Where would it stop.</quote> Wherever we say it does? Isn't our democracy actually more vulnerable to corrosion because racism is allowed to proliferate, not less? I get there's a slippery slope argument against prohibiting any speech, but doesn't allowing public displays of racism open our government up to the threat of demagogic takedown, whereas that would be harder if we were more like Europe?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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