You’re the one who ridiculed someone for “believ[ing] Canada has anything resembling free speech?”

You’re the one making stupid assessment, why would I be the one providing proof?

It’s always the same with you people lol

It sure is better than “It is because I said so, and I’ll stop talking to you because you don’t agree”. Lmao

Go on then, what rights do you have that I don’t?

Lmao alright gotcha you’re just not arguing in good faith then.

You’re just stating an opinion and presenting it as an inarguable fact lol

Biden just said how he’s against that because that would be politicizing the supreme court.

Thing is, you can’t win by playing by the rules when your opponent is constantly cheating.

The supreme court has clearly ALREADY become politicized, it can’t get that much worse than rich white guys buying a black justice to do their bidding, now can it?

Which is so fucked. The supreme court shouldn’t “lean” one way or another. They should interpret the laws and constitution and consider the merits of the letter vs the intent of the law, not give their own opinion on the matter.

I remember here in Canada, back in the days of Harper, just how many times conservative appointed judges struck down conservative laws because they were unconstitutional.

Whether they personally believe this or that shouldn’t even matter at all.

It gives an air of legitimacy to those thoughts.

Those people are LOUD but they aren’t nearly as numerous as we, or they, think.

Most people, by and large, just want to do their little thing and want to be nice to others, and want others to be nice to them. Most people don’t care that their neighbors are a black gay couple, as long as they’re nice.

When we let 10 people who post a 100 racist memes a day drown out the 100 regular people who post 10 times a day gives everyone the impression there is more racism than there really is, which breeds more racism, and drives out regular people who don’t want to be on a racist platform.

(Using racism here as a stand-in for whatever form of bigotry you feel passionate about)

Welp, since you seem believe that USA is #1 in free speech, bullshit seems to sort of be your thing, no?

Canada scores higher than the US in most freedom of speech indexes/rankings.

I have a feeling you’ve bought bridges before, haven’t you.

I would definitely expect the Venn diagram of neo-nazis and Karens who give trouble to retail workers to look a lot like a circle.

As long as you have clear boundaries as to what’s acceptable or not, a population with critical thinking skills will always be able to tell what’s going on.

I had this debate with a friend a while back. He said we should tolerate nazi flags because “what if the government decides the pride flag is a hateful flag”. Well, the nazi flag (at least coloquially) stands for “Kill all jews”, while the pride flag stands for “Be proud of your sexual orientation and gender identity”. One of these passes the hate speech/incitement test, the other doesn’t.

There just needs to be consistent and well thought out rules in place. If it’s the case, I’m not scared of authoritarians using the paradox of tolerance to their advantage because it’s so transparent.