Re: Kuro5hin Re: [ox-en] Nazi in Debian Alert
- From: Benja Fallenstein <b.fallenstein gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:38:18 +0100
Paul Bowman wrote:
| Amazing how many
| people seem to wish to disgrace the good name of anarchism by
| appropriating it for themselves whilst defending the "free speach
| rights" of racists and nazis (usually whilst agreeing with right-wingers
| that hanging's too good for anybody who calls themself a Communist,
| especially those of us who preface it with Libertarian or Anarchist)
I think it is highly unfair to say that people who believe in free
speech even for racists and nazis usually think that "hanging's too good
for anybody who calls themself a Communist [...]". First, of course
anybody who takes this seriously (and I'm quite convinced that both
Perens and RMS do, and probably most or all of the Debian crowd you've
tlaked to) will apply the same standard to communist speech as to racist
speech. Second, I believe that there is a large crowd of people who are
both sympathetic to Communism and who believe in absolute free speech.
- Benja
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