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@josemanuel why is “free speech” always hateful speech to them?
@derickflorian But, answering your question directly, can we really say that we have free speech if we never have to face it against its opposite, in this case censorship? And who would censor good things? Nobody, right? That's why the litmus test for free speech is whether we accept hate speech or not. In a way, haters and edgelords are the canary in our freedom mine.
@josemanuel totally, they have the right to say it but it doesn’t make it less objectionable and stupid in my opinion. They can say what they want and I will think of them accordingly.
@derickflorian In this particular case, I think it's something like when a small dog barks at a bigger dog. The former tries to hide its fear of the latter that way. What the small dog fails to grasp is that usually bigger dogs don't give a damn about smaller dogs, so it could have saved its bravado for a better cause. From an outsider's standpoint it just looks ridiculous.