Subtitle: Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors

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    The prolitariat doesn’t need the protection of governance from ideas. That’s how we get Nazis. Study your history.

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      This isn’t about ideas it is about calling for violence towards people. This isn’t how you get Nazis this is the “you already have Nazis and need to do something about it”

      Also, funnily enough, the proletariat or what’s left of it, are the ones currently flocking to the right-wing extremist party here in Germany.

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      Nah bruv, as an american, the people are too dumb to not need some sort of protection from hate speech and ideas. A fact checker needs to be a mandatory public service at this point. I feel the same way about the homeless bum who shouts at everyone downtown that their participation in consummerism is destroying everything. If they called for violence, it would be a step too far.

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        And, that’s exactly how we got so dumb.

        Check out The Manufacturing of Consent. Or, if lighter reading is your thing, 1984.

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          Controlling media and having a fact-checker pop up are two different things. Let people spout their nonsense, but flag sources of misinformation as unreliable.