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Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers

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I question how accurately using a survey alone really answers this question. Some people would never admit(or even think) they're against free speech--at least until they see speech they deem too dangerous to be allowed. We have seen this on college campuses lately. We've seen this during the 'War on Terror'. It's the same result even if their initial beliefs are different.

What you’re saying is that it could be even worse. Not better.

It’s because younger people are more emotional and extreme. Nothing to do with “Gen Z”.

Fire has an institutional blindness to the idea of intolerance of intolerance.

This isn't news, it's been progressing for a while. I'm a millennial and I say we should look at the numbers for millennials as well.

I see a lot of violence acceptance in my own generation as well. And I see it way more pronounced on left-wing people my age rather than right-wing people my age (largely irrespective of the gender).

I suspect the right-wing people your age are merely laundering their appetite for violence through the actions of their elected state. What do they think of the ICE shootings in Minneapolis? Double-tap strikes against Caribbean fishing vessels? Our queue of regime-change operations and Hegseth's "no quarter" rhetoric?

Remember this? "We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." Violence against perceived enemies is a core part of the Republican party platform.

If there is, in fact, a rising tolerance for violence among some on the left, I can't help but see it as reactive, not proactive. Don't make a punch if you can't take a punch.

Always easy to blame the other party and divert the discussion from the main topic. Yeah i’m not surprised.

What’s next, you’re gonna call me a fascist too?

There is no point in discussing an issue without also talking about its very obvious causal factors -- especially if the issue is something that would be desirable to mitigate.

I don't think it is about being anti free speech, but rather there exists such extreme evils in our society that sometimes necessitate action, in the view of some.

I think it's less about the extremity of evil and more about lacking the means to get rid of it in a more civil manner.

"when the game is rigged its justified to flip the table"

It is tho’ Naive not to

Definitely my take-away as well. I think the paradox of tolerance is just being understood more as they grow up in these conditions. You have people advocating for eradication of entire populations, some are going to see that as worth stopping at all costs.

John Stuart Mill recognised over 150 years ago that free speech was only free if it was honest, good faith, polite discourse. Allowing it to descend into lies and ad hominems only benefits the elite who have the greatest resources to shout down dissent, in which case it's not really free if you're setting it up to favour one side. Not unsurprising Boomers would prefer the system that benefits them.

And every time someone voices your/his very reasonable point a whole group of people invoke near solipsism and "But WHOSE truth" the people making this statement are usually either boosters for obvious liars (who complained about community notes and other annotation tools) or are are weaponized pendants (outside the areas they personally rely on for income) to the point of understanding nothing.

I guess we should attempt nothing and just embrace 60% of people being convinced there is no facts or evidence for a universe older than 6k years (not to attack religion), lets just embrace the impossibility of knowing.

It's all just weaponized mendacious stupidity where people ignore history and people completely forget about relying on doing bank transactions or the fact that we have working chain of custody processes/systems.

There’s a recent far right effort to reframe hate speech and intolerance as “free speech” younger generations are not buying it. Survey questions such as “is it ok to punch a Nazi?” Tend to get answered in the affirmative by younger generations. Rather than meaning “free speech is being met by violence” it should be taken to mean “intolerance won’t be tolerated”

I think younger folks are aware of the paradox of intolerance: do we extend tolerance to the intolerant?

What heartens me is that the answer I get from young folks is usually something along the lines of "when you break the social contract the rules of the contract no longer apply to you" which neatly sorts things I think? The tolerant will not tolerate broken social contracts.

Paradox of tolerance. It's not the intolerant that create a paradox, it's the tolerant who reserve the right to be intolerant against groups of people who are not on their short exemption list.

Ah yes, appreciate the correction :)

Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

>[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”

The First Amendment means the Federal government has to allow a Nazi to speak, but we the people can still punch them in the mouth.

bullshit

this is just a measure of fear of reprisals against the indivual bieng questioned,virtualy, online, where one group has faced the consequences of mouthing off, in person, and the other never has

lets run this again, with ME asking the questions, wearing my full motherfucker regailia with whatever the last impliment I was useing in my hand, right up close where they can SMELL just how fucking tweeky I am after 10 days in the woods.

whats that?, cat got your tounge?

Do you require assistance lugging around that chip on your shoulder?

Careful not to cut yourself on all that edge.

We've had decades of failed 'sit down and talk it out.' When do we recognize that it's a failed strategy like lowering taxes or communism? Like these, proponents will inevitably claim we haven't tried it hard enough. That's why it doesn't pass the sniff test.

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