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submitted 1 year ago by Lengsel@lemmy.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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Why are people quick to ban or block because a comment makes them angry, rather than engage, debate or respectfully strongly disagree and leave the discussion at that?

Why can't people handle talking with someone who has a completely different view who can explain why they are against something that was said?

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[–] mars@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s no such thing as “So hateful it’s harmful”, that is a facade or a tool of deception used to censor someone because the other side can’t prove it to be false.

You cherry-picked the comment you quoted, leaving out important context: "Their view is so hateful that even giving a platform by engaging with it can be harmful." My reading of this point is that giving a hateful idea a platform to spread is a reason to disengage with it, because by engaging with it you are giving validity to it in the mind of the author of that idea.

Even so, this is such a strange statement for you to make. So strange that I simply have to ask further: How do you reconcile this idea of yours with both the continued existence of antisemitism online, and being the mod for the !judaism@lemmy.ca community? Don't you see antisemitism as a hateful set of beliefs that should be eliminated? That it should not be given a platform to spread? Of course, by your definition that would be "censorship".

[–] Lengsel@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Under no circumstances will I remove any person for expressing antisemetic views and opinions, correct, I won't censor them. Antisementic beliefs can speak freely without repercussions. It's up to each individual how they choose to handle it, but I refuse to remove antisemetic statements from my forum on Judaism. Words can ever cause injuries.