To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously 😛.

What’s the point of writing down rules, if mods just do what they want? But I suppose that’s the risk you take when you call someone a liar in a small community; they might be a mod.

Edit: I’m not trying to say that mods suck, they perform a useful and often thankless job. Just that it can be difficult for small communities to get a healthy number of good mods, which can become a problem.

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    Being in favor of free speech means allowing the people you hate to talk and say what they want to say too.

    Being against free speech is authoritarian.

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        The worst thing you can do is burn bridges with people you disagree with.

        The best way to make a bigot not be a bigot anymore is for the people they hate to be friendly to them.

        There’s this one black musician that has gotten quite a few grand wizards of the KKK to leave the clan, just by having friendly conversations with them.

        Doing that makes them realize that they’re going through the same shit as the people they hate, which then makes them realize that the people they really should be directing their hate toward are billionaires.

        Because we’re all getting a lower wage that we should be, we’re all paying a higher interest on debt than we should be, we’re all paying higher rent than we should be. We’re all paying more for our necessities than we should be. And the billionaires’ unbridled narcissistic avarice is why we’re all suffering.

        That’s why every media outlet always twists narratives to make people hate each other. If we’re fighting each other, we won’t focus on the real evil that’s looming over all of us.

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          while I absolutely agree with you in a private setting, in a public setting I believe it does more harm than good to provide a platform for people to preach hate.

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                You’re not being tolerant by letting people say mean things. You can say different mean things right back to them.

                Free speech works both ways.

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                  I disagree. Saying certain things are hate crimes, and shouldn’t be allowed. Like burning crosses, etc.

                  Deciding where to draw the line is difficult and subjective, but that doesn’t mean that it’s best to have no line.

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                    Saying certain things are hate crimes, and shouldn’t be allowed. Like burning crosses, etc.

                    If you’re burning a cross in someone else’s property, that’s a crime vandalism, trespassing harassment.

                    Saying naughty words and only saying naughty words doesn’t actually hurt anything besides people’s feelings

                    Do you really want to live in a place where you can be arrested for saying something that offends people?

                    If that’s the standard for what kind of speech we outlaw, then it’s only a matter of time before religious lunatics start throwing people in the gulag for saying “god damnit”. or “Jesus” as a stand-in for some kind of curse word.

                    If we lose free speech, you may agree with the one that’s allowed to censor things, but what happens when free speech is gone and someone new, who you strongly disagree with is now allowed to censor things?

                    I’ll say again. The same laws that allow bigots to say what they say are the same laws that allow us to make fun of them.