I think you're really onto something with this. "Unfair" really does seem to sum up their objections to single party states, and not allowing reactionaries voices.

In the US for example free soeech brainworms are drummed into young peoples heads with the idea of fairness. KKK member has to have free speech too or maybe you wouldn't. It has to be fair. The content if the speech doesn't matter.

That example isnt hyperbole for anyone who doesn't know, thats the literal court case they use to talk about free speech. A KKK member had a show on local access cable and sued when he was kicked off air. Got to be fair. It would be authoritarian to not let reactionaries speak

[–] axont@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, the ACLU sued on the behalf of the KKK to march through a majority black neighborhood where kids could see them. Just all around lack of empathy from free speech warriors.

[–] RedDawn@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Yeah, another foundational case was allowing Nazis to march through a Jewish neighborhood in Skokie Illinois, where some of the people living there were Holocaust survivors.

[–] Chapo0114@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Interestingly, finding that out helped me shake out some of my LIB brainworms back in college

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah the ACLU loves to defend the KKK.