> When our enemies say: well, we gave you the freedom of opinion back then - yeah, you gave it to us, that's in no way evidence that we should return the favor! Your stupidity shall not be contagious! That you granted it to us is evidence of how dumb you are!
-- Joseph Goebbels, 1935
The whole point is that fascist movements will abuse your tolerance to build themselves up to a position where they can take it away from you. The only answer is to not tolerate the intolerant.
Goebbels was an unreliable narrator who had strong incentive to promote the idea that freedom of speech makes a nation weak.
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It takes a special kind of person to use a warning about the dangers of right wing extremism to... argue in favor of right wing extremism.
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