Hate campaigners exploit free speech to restrict others’ speech
Evidence
We have to speak out against the hatemongers in our society by independently presenting the truth and exposing their lies. Hate campaigners would use freedom of speech to take it away from us. We have to use it to keep it. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3840
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
Related
- Free speech must be actively deployed to counter hatemongers who would weaponize it. (similarity 0.94)
- Hate groups exploit defenders of free speech whom they would eliminate if empowered (similarity 0.87)
- Hate speech boundaries resist any simple resolution. (similarity 0.80)
- Colleagues urged publishing hate-propaganda findings as truth over caution (similarity 0.80)
- Hate literature propaganda shifts even low-right-wing university students’ attitudes. (similarity 0.79)