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You have to be the change you want to see. I have no problem with other people holding views which I think are disgusting. The only thing I have a problem with is censorship.

H. L. Mencken quote is applicable here, "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

edit, The one thing I'm finding I really don't like about Voat is that it requires whitelisting Javascript from google domains in order to be able to post.

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Effectively: I am going to read exclusively what a group of people biased toward racism and sexism writes about history and philosophy etc. Since there is no censorship, that will surely give me objective account of reality, history and science. If you dont take effort to read about history and politology also from people who are not on voat for a reason, you will just close yourself into a bubble.

It is not so much that those views are "disgusting" in metaphorical sense. It is also that they are threat to my freedom and my success in life. Talking about all that as if it would be all just about badly written literature is misleading.

> Talking about all that as if it would be all just about badly written literature is misleading.

It's dishonest. And they know they're being dishonest.

I think we need more censorship quite frankly.

I can think of no reasonable justification for that comment.

It's a satirical comment pointing out how ridiculous OP's platitude filled comment is.

Maybe you do.

If you dislike the first amendment, there are plenty of countries you can move to that don't have it.

Definitely love censorship. The only people who don't love censorship are those fighting for the free speech rights of racists and conspiracy theorists.

And no, I live in this country so I think I'll be the change I want to see in the world.

Please elaborate.

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