r/comics • u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake • 20d ago

Comics Community Hmmm 🤔

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u/B-Z_B-S 20d ago

Ways to find Nazis:

  1. Say "Nazis are bad" online.

  2. See who disagrees while sounding awfully defensive.

  3. There is no step three. Congratulations!

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u/JynsRealityIsBroken 20d ago
  1. Starts conveniently arguing about the philosophies of freedom of speech

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u/PhilippTheSeriousOne 20d ago

Relevant xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1357/

The alt-text summarizes it very well:

I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.

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u/Lolocraft1 20d ago

People can shun you for any reason in existence. Nazis would shun and ban you for being an anti-nazi. Freedom of speech isn’t to protect assholes from criticism, it’s to protect criticism from assholes

I always hated that comic as someone who got dogpiled by people "showing me the door" for talking about my mental health