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He was for free speech until he got the call and now made a hostage video. This is our country in a nutshell.
Hilarious that you see this as a "free speech" issue. Let me dispel your ignorance - there is no govt actor here.
Criticizing a POS like Tucker for soft pedaling a POS is not a restriction on free speech rights.
correct. it's moral argument. which can be painful when you make bad arguments.
I was on a private forum for a while that had a tag line on the landing page:
"Welcome here. Say anything you want, but don't come whining to the mods when you get kicked in the nuts."
There's no good argument - moral or otherwise - for the normalization of Nick Fuentes.
I'd suggest actually watching the interview if you are under the impression that Tucker exposed his bad ideas.
"normalization"
I don't think engaging in a conversation with objectionable views normalizes them per se. In fact, engagement is necessary to win the moral argument. E.G. Charlie Kirk. What normalizes objectionable views is agreeing with them. Calmly dissecting them like a gelid frog on a well-lit stage in front of millions is the best medicine of all.
Suppression is not a terribly reliable tool. Some organisms thrive in dark, damp places. Stick that gelid frog between the couch cushions and it'll cause all kinds of unpleasantness.
The best tool of all is policy which achieves common good. It sucks energy out of pathological ecosystems.
I am curious which of Nick Fuentes' objectionable views you believe Tucker engaged with?
All of them. He asked questions and let Fuentes talk. Now, millions of people are discussing the substance. Will Fuentes gain some supporters? Yeah. But who? I suspect mostly people who already think like him but just didn't know who he was. I doubt Fuentes converted masses of minds. More likely lost ground. Most people are going to reject odious little trolls like Fuentes. That's classical liberalism. Messy. Efforts to make it tidy run the risk of becoming another insult of intolerance.
Implicit in the argument for cancellation is that the assumption that the evil being cancelled is a mortal risk to good. I don't buy that argument at all. Good vs Evil is not a contest we should be terribly worried about. We should seek it early and more often, to win it via debate rather other means.
Firmly believe that repressive tolerance is intolerance.
No, he didn't. You either clearly didn't listen to the interview or you're just lying. Tucker didn't discuss, much less challenge, a single objectionable view of Nick's, which is why you won't (and indeed, can't) name them.
In other words, he didn't talk about his horrible comments about Jews and the Holocaust, his racist comments about blacks, his awful comments about women, his awful comments about JD Vance's wife, his praise of Hitler, or his awful comments about Charlie Kirk. At one point I thought he might actually broach one of those subjects when Nick disclosed that Stalin was one of his heroes. Tucker promised to circle back on that idea, but then never did. He let is go. Not a SINGLE objectionable viewpoint was discussed or challenged.
I know you have a long history of overlooking and failing to acknowledge conservative's bad acts, and will defend the Republican who you think helps you get elected, but Nick isn't going to help us win any elections.
FTR, nobody here suggested cancelling Nick. Some of you keep using that term when nobody has suggested it. Not even Ben Shapiro suggested it. What they suggested is not to soft-pedal a racist and white supremacist and give him a bigger platform to spew his toxic ideas. And no, it didn't hurt Fuentes in the least. I read the other day that his audience this week has increased like three-fold.
It was a bad idea to interview this guy if you weren't going to ask him about some of his more incendiary and hateful ideas. Gives the Dems just another talking point in the trope that Republicans are racists, white supremacists.