Hate groups exploit defenders of free speech whom they would eliminate if empowered

Evidence

I also know that the hate spreaders count on people like me to defend this right, which they do not believe in at all; that they despise us for our ‘‘weakness” in doing so, that civil rights advocates would be among the first they would eliminate if they came to power, and that they would never give anyone any freedoms at all, but only their place in the execution line, if they had their murderous way. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3312

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The tragic bind of the liberal free-speech defender: the very tolerance that protects hate literature is exploited and despised by those who would abolish it — an asymmetry that challenges principled absolutism.
• XREF: Echoes Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance, and relates to the ‘tolerance trap’ discussed in institutional design literatures. — connects to: Hate is the free choice to abolish the Other rather than unite with it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1011; Highly prejudiced individuals endorse free speech arguments they do not personally value — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 109
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ framing of free expression vs. moral panic — here the free-speech defense itself enables the harm it claims to cure.