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Initech

(100,108 posts)
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 01:14 AM Sep 2017

Oh look. The "free speech" brigade is attacking Antifa and UC Berkeley again.

Don't these morons have anything better to do? Do they not realize attacking Antifa already destroys their "free speech" arguments? The best thing to do is ignore them. If you feed the troll they only get stronger. If you ignore them, they get weaker.

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Oh look. The "free speech" brigade is attacking Antifa and UC Berkeley again. (Original Post) Initech Sep 2017 OP
Couldn't the exact same argument be made the other way? RhodeIslandOne Sep 2017 #1
The Alt-Right, J_William_Ryan Sep 2017 #2
I know. It's absurd to think "many sides" cause it. Initech Sep 2017 #4
Look where? SharonClark Sep 2017 #3
It was Twitter last night. Initech Sep 2017 #5
 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
1. Couldn't the exact same argument be made the other way?
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:11 AM
Sep 2017

If no one shows up to protest a Ben Shapiro speech, and goes to do something productive and only a handful of his conservative toadies show up to hear him, it really will be like it never happened.

J_William_Ryan

(1,760 posts)
2. The Alt-Right,
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:50 AM
Sep 2017

white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and others on the hateful right are not the same as those who demonstrate against fascism – the ‘both sides’ rhetoric fails as a false comparison fallacy.

The Alt-Right, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and others on the hateful right seek to disadvantage and discriminate against blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, and gay and transgender Americans – those who oppose neo-fascist movements do not.

Initech

(100,108 posts)
4. I know. It's absurd to think "many sides" cause it.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 09:44 AM
Sep 2017

And it's driving me crazy that the alt right thinks we're all the violent ones. We didn't bear the shit out of innocent black people in Charlottesville. We are not the ones showing up to rallies with giant AK-47s and AR-15s to intimidate the other side. The alt right needs to get over themselves.

Initech

(100,108 posts)
5. It was Twitter last night.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 09:46 AM
Sep 2017

The alt right "free speech" brigade thinks they own free speech again and we're trashing Antifa.

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