@TheStormcrow @TheConversationUS Sure. Just as long as we use social cues and pressure instead of government force.

@LouisIngenthron @TheConversationUS I hire & pay my government to intervene when Americans are under attack by. Appeasement didn't work with the first nazis.

@TheStormcrow @TheConversationUS When they commit violence, yes.

But if you seek to use the force of the government to punish speech you disagree with (i.e. "making it hurt to hate"), then you're just giving them exactly what they want. Those are the exact tools fascists use to rise to power.

@LouisIngenthron @TheConversationUS You know, I am never going to both-sides or normalize the maga/gop attacks on millions of Americans. I hope you experience everything you need to understand that. Painful traumatic unending life lessons about why we don't let nazis thrive and hide under the camouflage of 'free speech'. May you suffer what so many of us do every day, until you get it.

@TheStormcrow @TheConversationUS I don't wish suffering on people who disagree with me.

That you do means you probably have more in common with your opponents than you realize.

Try empathy and understanding instead of hate.