I know. My point is, I don’t want to be like the Nazis. Therefore, I am against censorship of speech that I disagree with/find offensive.
Nobody was being censored. As I only just explained, FOS is only possibly in question when the state or courts intervene. The Nazis were free (and legally approved apparently) to make their hateful, offensive and terrifying (to the people it was being directed at) speeches. People just didn’t like it and gave them a kicking for being such contemptible a**wipes.
You either didn’t read my posts or have misunderstood them. I didn’t say the people giving them a kicking was a violation of free speech. I was saying that if the government failed to charge the people that gave the kicking with assault, and failed to do so solely because the government didn’t like what the Nazis were saying, That would be violation of free speech.
You’d really stand there silent in the street and just watch a fully armed Nazi militia squad, with burning torches march past a Synagogue shouting anti-Semitic slogans because you didn’t want to impinge on the Nazi’s FOS? Exercise your own FOS and tell what sh*tty people they are, loudly.
absolutely! of course you can exercise your FOS and tell them what sh*tty people they are and do so loudly. What you can’t do is start violence. That was my point. Of course you might also consider doing this: