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comment by snoodog
snoodog  ·  2846 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Free Speech and the Paradox of Tolerance

    If your ideas cannot withstand the court of public opinion, then your ideas are bad and do not deserve a public stage. This has always been, and always will be, simply due to common sense.

So according to that statement gay rights are bad idea in Russia and women's rights are a bad idea in the Middle East. I disagree. I think the court of public opinion can be wrong quite often and should not be used to judge what speech can be said.