K: at some point, we must understand that a message of hate and violence and racism
cannot serve anybody any good…I don’t believe that the “other side is stupid”
but I do believe it is misguided and quite simply, wrong… because it is a message
of hate and violence and racism… and there aren’t any grounds that one can defend
a message of hate and violence and racism… ok, let us try the old Kantian idea,
that an idea is to be tried out throughout the world… let us suppose that we allow
this message of hate and violence and racism become the law of the land…
what would be the outcome? hate and violence and racism and the world cannot long
last ongoing strife of such power… we cannot allow the message of hate and violence
and racism to exist because it is not a message that can be tolerated within society
because it causes strife and violence and anger, on both sided, it does not
allow a stable and functional society, this message of hate and violence and racism…
and that must be the criteria we use, how does this message create a stable and
functional society and we know, know that a message of hate and violence and racism
doesn’t create a stable and functional society… that is why we cannot allow it…
the message of hate and violence and racism damages society, damages our very
way of life, philosophically, unlike you, I can reject a message of hate and violence
and racism because it does damage our society, our government, our democracy…
we as a society can use measures to protect our society, our government and
banning messages of hate and violence and racism is acceptable because the
message of hate and violence and racism does damage society
and on those grounds we can ban free speech… there is no ambiguity, philosophically,
for me that is there, apparently, for you…
free speech can only happen when it doesn’t damage the society…
Kropotkin