Wrongthink

[Thomas Paine]

Wrong think is bullshit. That's thought policing.
What we REALLY should be focused on is THOT policing.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

No, censoring ideas because you dislike them is dangerous and a hallmark of bloodthirsty authoritarian ideologues. Just allow idiots to express themselves, and allow other people to call them idiots for it.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

When our infinitely wise and benevolent alien/AI overlords rule over us, yes, they should stop any bad ideas from spreading and causing trouble, and can be trusted to be ethical about it because they're infinitely wise and benevolent.

I don't believe people should ever be allowed to do that though. That's way too much power to let anyone wield, and even with good intentions it would turn out badly. 1984 seems like a decent illustration of the idea, although it's not exactly a unique concept that being able to control what can be discussed means you control the society.

 

[Shit Waifu]

I feel like there are a lot of fucking morons here, and some pretty repulsive users, responses and threads, but I usually don't insult them to their face, why the hell would I?

Every time I try and complain about a certain subgroup of people it just gets me a torrent of retard points, so it's best to shut the fuck up and lurk instead. Which is what I do for the most part anyway. I don't post as many responses as I used to. Whenever I'm uncensored about the fact that I find the alt right gross, I'm met with disdain.

There's clearly a lot of people here whose ideologies I find to be horrendous and whose ideas conflict with my own on a deep moral level, I don't like SJWs (I fucking hate them), but I like these people even less. However I know arguing with their deluded asses will get me nowhere, nor is trying to convince them of anything gonna serve as a push for them to change their minds. I don't care. I don't really feel like censoring them, and I definitely don't feel like talking to them. Ignoring them is the best option, it's the attention they crave above all else that keeps their idiocy fueled, so might as well just ignore them most of the time and only take swings at them on occasion, or else it'll keep the fire of stupidity burning.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

I feel like there are a lot of fucking morons here, and some pretty repulsive users, responses and threads, but I usually don't insult them to their face, why the hell would I?

Every time I try and complain about a certain subgroup of people it just gets me a torrent of exceptional individual points, so it's best to shut the fuck up and lurk instead. Which is what I do for the most part anyway. I don't post as many responses as I used to. Whenever I'm uncensored about the fact that I find the alt right gross, I'm met with disdain.

There's clearly a lot of people here whose ideologies I find to be horrendous and whose ideas conflict with my own on a deep moral level, I don't like SJWs (I fucking hate them), but I like these people even less. However I know arguing with their deluded asses will get me nowhere, nor is trying to convince them of anything gonna serve as a push for them to change their minds. I don't care. I don't really feel like censoring them, and I definitely don't feel like talking to them. Ignoring them is the best option, it's the attention they crave above all else that keeps their idiocy fueled, so might as well just ignore them most of the time and only take swings at them on occasion, or else it'll keep the fire of stupidity burning.

I've bitched about it many times but /pol/ has absolutely infested this site, mostly the news board. Not only have a lot of alt-right spergs shown up, but many old users have been drinking the cool aid as well. I appreciate Null's commitment to free expression but I'm sick of how the majority opinion now is ignorant bigotry is "just telling it like it is".

 

[laoyang]

I'd like to see communism eradicated but only through moral means like debate and education, not by burning books or shooting people for believing it. So basically it'll never actually happen. But you can't really kill an idea anyway, no matter how hard you try.

Pretty much my thoughts on Islam.

 

[Zarkov]

The idea that fact-checking is an awful practice because it invalidates someone's fee-fees. This is one of the worst thing brought about by the SJW cancer, because if you're forced to take everything at face value then the only truth left is the one spewed by whoever happens to be in a position of power at the moment.

It's also awful because of how profoundly mediocre it is. It's an admission of your impotence, of the fact that you have no way to defend your insane ideas and have to default to silencing your opponents to avoid being unmasked as the raging sped that deep down, you know you are but absolutely cannot let anyone else see.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

I've bitched about it many times but /pol/ has absolutely infested this site, mostly the news board. Not only have a lot of alt-right spergs shown up, but many old users have been drinking the cool aid as well. I appreciate Null's commitment to free expression but I'm sick of how the majority opinion now is ignorant bigotry is "just telling it like it is".

Eh, I don't know if I'd say majority. People around here aren't trying to silence others by spamming their topics, so, at least I don't engage with that stuff. The tryhard 2edgy crowd are always lame though.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I don't believe in the concept of "Wrong Think" because I support the principles of free speech and free expression. Also, I will agree that a lot of Alt-Right and /pol/ spergs are attracted to this site and can be rather annoying, particularly in the Articles & Happenings board.

But while I find their ideology idiotic and abhorrent, I will still fight for their right to believe in it.

However, I will also fight for my right to ridicule said spergs for their moronic beliefs, and any other idiotic or disgusting ideology, whether it be Fascism, Alt-Right, Communism, Anarchism, SJW group-think, or whatever.

That's why I hate groups like Antifa. Free Speech and Free Expression is a fundamental human right, and we can use free speech to fight abhorrent ideologies a lot more effectively than we can using violence.

That's why so many Fascist and Communist governments, (and most authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in general) utterly despise the concept of free speech. Education, debate, and even satire and ridicule are almost always much more potent and superior weapons against tyrannical ideologies than bike locks or bricks.

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

It is practically impossible to persecute somebody for what they think, because a person's thoughts exist entirely inside their own mind. Any discussions surrounding the idea of "thought policing" are thus really discussions about the limits we ought to place upon a person's ability to express their thoughts, and I think the sensible place to draw the line here is when a thought being expressed is actively inciting criminal behavior.

If I overhear a bunch of people meticulously planning a terrorist atrocity, record their conversation, and then show it to police, the defense that they were just using their "free speech" to conduct a good-humored thought experiment between themselves isn't going to cut it with most authorities, and the fact that they haven't actually 'done' anything is probably not going to save them from prosecution.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Restricting speech. Yes, I know, the irony. But its the foundation on which everything else it built.

Organizing violence is the other one, and is already illegal under U.S. and most nations' laws.