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>It's entirely legal - and often appropriate - for someone with shitty views to be persecuted. People who march in neo-Nazi rallies with swastikas should see non-governmental consequences for their actions.

Who decides what counts as shitty views? Is it decided solely based off your political preference? How do you feel about people who march in pro-socialim rallies facing see non-governmental consequences for their actions, during the mccarthy era?



> Who decides what counts as shitty views?

Society.

> Is it decided solely based off your political preference?

No, you might have "good" politics and also be an asshole.

> How do you feel about people who march in pro-socialim rallies facing see non-governmental consequences for their actions, during the mccarthy era?

I would suggest that the fact that the era's named after a US Senator implies it wasn't all "non-governmental consequences".


> Society.

Ostracizing and later persecuting Jews was supported by large parts of the population in 1930's Germany and Eastern Europe. According to your logic, that made it OK too then?


"I irrationally don't like ethnic group X" is deplorable, but generally legal and part of free expression/association.

"I won't give them equal protection under the law because of that dislike" is another story.

The treatment of Jews in 1930s Germany went well beyond "we don't like your views and thus won't hang out with you".


>Society.

I heard anti-communism was pretty popular back in the day. Does that mean such actions should be endorsed/allowed?

>I would suggest that the fact that the era's named after a US Senator implies it wasn't all "non-governmental consequences".

So your only objection to that was the government interventions?


> I heard anti-communism was pretty popular back in the day. Does that mean such actions should be endorsed/allowed?

Sure, why not? If you (or even your entire neighborhood) don't want to have a garden party with an open communist, that's your right. I similarly have the right to say "you're a dick for doing that". If I'm a civil rights activist, I have a right to endorse the Montgomery bus boycott, too.

> So your only objection to that was the government interventions?

With a fairly wide definition of "government interventions", yes. The Comics Code is something I'd consider intervention; "we'll self-regulate under threat of external regulation" is something I consider government intervention and a First Amendment violation in this case. The same for McCarthy's driving a fellow senator to suicide via abuse of power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_C._Hunt).




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