Manner restrictions are different than content restrictions.
There’s speech that doesn’t fit the community’s guidelines in terms of the manner it is expressed, but I don’t believe there are any ideas that should not be tolerated here.
There’s speech that doesn’t fit the community’s guidelines in terms of the manner it is expressed, but I don’t believe there are any ideas that should not be tolerated here.
Do you still stand by your statement? Should that idea be tolerated on this forum?
I’ll disagree, of course, but in the exceedingly unlikely event that you present a strong argument, it’s still an opportunity to hone my own counter-argument.
I don't even think this has anything to do with free speech, as in freedom to express your thoughts. The key with free speech is that everyone is entitled to that. Verbal attacks are often an attempt to stop others from expressing their thoughts, so I think they are fundamentally an action against free speech.
That being said, as a German, I don't agree with the German blanket bans of certain expressions. Context and intentions always matter, I think.
Most, if not all, meaningful speech risks offending someone.
Framing uncomfortable beliefs as attacks grants a form of "victim power" by which anyone can claim to be a victim of your "attack" as a means of shutting down speech.
This isn't a hypothetical, I see the technique used frequently.
The answer is yes, absolutely.
And I'd happily engage you to try to convince and educate you, in a respectful way, why I believe that's incorrect.
Because that's how we raise ourselves up.
Censoring, reviling, shutting down and abandoning people who hold these sorts of beliefs only serves to reinforce them and drive them into echo chambers of radicalization.
So yes, by all means. Express any thoughts, ideas, opinions or dreams you have.
By actively participating in the marketplace of ideas, we can let the best ones rise, and the worst ones defeat themselves.
Through discussion and debate, not force or cooersion, of which censorship is an insidious form.
"We need to kill all the ** to keep our race pure"
Is that speech that should be tolerated? Karl Popper would say no, and I agree with his reasoning.