Reply #17: And it accomplished what it should have [View All]

[TayTay]

It got you riled up. It got you thinking. It focused you and crystallized your arguments into a better and more coherent set of expressions. You knew what you thought and believed in better at the end of the rant than at the beginning. Sometimes being exposed to speech you find distasteful can serve a purpose. It can better your (not their) arguments. Hey, that's the theory.

I have never seen anyone in this group speak out for shutting down speech they disagree with. I don't see that as very likely, given that we are Dems and on the liberal side. I was imploring you to see the value of speech that is on the radical side. Why allow it? Why even listen to it. (Well, to maybe the first post in the set, but maybe not the 32nd rant of the same thing in the same thread.) Does this serve a purpose? For you, not them.