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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
Yes, let's complete that: "First they came for the paedophiles." Is that how the quote should begin? I don't think the government should be in the business of banning books. Period. Full stop. But that quote is over the top and presents strictly formal problems when applying it to this case. Unless we are talking about WWII, I just don't think we should be mentioning Nazis on the Internet. It's old. It contributes little to the debate. It displays an impoverishment of the imagination and of the historical consciousness. Why not Revolutionary Way analogies? Why not Wilhelm Reich analogies?
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Yes, why not. If you can find analogies from Revolutionary Way, find analogies from Wilhelm Reich, be my guest.
I'm amazed that this time, you want talk of the Nazi regime to only be historical. Speaking of thought police
If anything, that analogy is even better now, after your last post. Thank you so much. So here is my version:
First they came for the people that had "immora"l thoughts, but I applauded that, because I agreed.
Then they came for people talking about Nazis, and I applauded that, because I don't like Hitler's name.
Then they came for ...
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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
Yes, let's complete that: "First they came for the paedophiles." Is that how the quote should begin?
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No. This is yet another strawman in this thread: I am
not, and neither is anyone else, standing up for the right to be paedophile, we're standing up for the right to have those thoughts. And there's a huge difference between that, and when you pretend it should begin "First they came for
paedophiles". You seriously need to stop stuffing an opinion like that down the throats of others.