I don't hate free speech. There's just nothing saying I HAVE to listen to someone spewing hate and misinformation. Especially all the hate and misinformation that's put me in danger for years because of me being queer or neurodivergent.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There’s nothing saying I HAVE to listen to someone spewing hate and misinformation

Except for the concept of being open minded. The ethical imperative to face new information that’s not easy to process, so that you can respond to it instead of being blindsided by it.

Free speech is a responsibility held by all members of society, to maintain those channels of communication.

Just like a good general has a responsibility to hear emissaries of his enemy, no matter how bitterly hated that enemy is. There’s nothing that says he HAS to listen to that emissary … other than his responsibility to his troops.

[–] kiranraine@reddthat.com 6 points 10 months ago

Except when that is hate towards me for being queer or neurodivergent. I can and will block out hate speech towards me or other minorities that's not based in reality. There's a point where I will listen except when vitriol is spewed towards me for no reason. You're attaching a tolerance to intolerance as if we have to listen to n@!is, racists or bigots just attacking everyone else for no good reason other than fox or Trump telling them so that these minorities are some threat that they're not.