People who say of Nazis “deal with bad ideas is by defeating them in the marketplace of ideas” are smuggling in the notion that Nazi ideas have not already been defeated on the merits, and are still valid and worthy to consider, or that Nazi "ideas" involve bloodless debate.
I am trying to imagine someone who is trying in good faith to decide whether to become a Nazi or not, and is carefully reading the pros and cons. I can't do it.
this, this, a zillion times this. Do Nazi ideas have to be defeated on the merits by every single successive generation, or by every single pair of eyeballs that might read a website??? The ideas themselves haven't changed one bit. They are every bit as murderous as they ever were.
I completely agree with your comment. The idea that Nazi beliefs can be dealt with solely through the marketplace of ideas oversimplifies the gravity of their ideology and the harm it has caused. Nazi ideas have
I love the story of how the Empire Supporters Club rid Metrostars (now Red Bulls) games of Nazis. www.vice.com/en/article/b...
Do these fans of reconsidering Nazi ideology also want us all to reconsider phlogiston theory? Or do they admit that some frameworks are broken and best left to the historians?
I feel like this claim also misses the fact that Nazi ideas were *not* defeated in the marketplace of ideas, but rather through the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht.
I keep hearing people ask "who pissed in your cornflakes" with the implication it's a bad thing, but have we demonstrated that in the marketplace of ideas? Maybe if we just give it a chance at redemption, we'd see that pissy cereal has positive qualities.
