• Grumpy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Not sure what the meme is referring to, but this is actually true in some aspects.

    If there are 100 people in a room and 1 person is just super loudly talking the entire time, it silences out 99 people. The ability to talk of the 99 is silenced by the 1. If you limit the amount the loudest can talk, you give the other 99 more freedom of speech. From a utilitarian view, you gained more freedom of speech as a whole by reducing the freedom of speech for one.

    People who say things like these generally conflate the concepts of “I want to remove others’ right to freedom of speech” with “my freedom of speech was taken away” when they often want to do the former.

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      Its referring to a conspiracy theory that gates, soros, fauci and whoever else is famous amongst altrighters for (supposedly) trying to go against their white nationalist ideas, are in collusion.

      It’s referencing the “Paradox of Tolerance”.

      Google some of the George Soros conspiracies to see what corner of the internet this comes from.

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        1 year ago

        Google some of the George Soros conspiracies to see what corner of the internet this comes from.

        I’d rather not tbh…

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          Probably best for your mental health. I just commented it because you said you dont know what its referring to.

          If you know about the Rothschild conspiracy theories or really any other “Elders of Zion” type conspiracy theory then you can probably already guesstimate where this goes.

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      1 year ago

      Freedom of speech is actually freedom from government persecution

      Doesn’t give me a free pass to be an asshole in a conversation