[lbo-talk] "Freedom" of fascist speech is an absurdity

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 6 08:32:48 PST 2006


"If everything you say is a lie, then you must be lying. But if you are lying, then you must be telling the truth. But if you are telling the truth, you must be lying... Does not compute... does not compute..."

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--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:


> Jim Devine :
>
> wait a sec! Isn't Charles advocating the end of
> freedom of speech
> forfascists? By his logic, however, isn't it "absurd
> to argue for the
> 'freedom' to advocate the end of freedom of speech"?
>
> ^^^^
> CB; Ok a sec is up. It is absurd to call fascists'
> license to speak
> "freedom" of speech, as fascists advocate the
> abolition of freedom of
> speech.
>
> You left off the quotes around "freedom" of speech
> for fascists. Fascists'
> don't have freedom of speech, they have "freedom" of
> speech. Fascists have
> Repression of Speech, and it is not absurd, but
> consistent, to call for an
> end to it.
>
>
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