Communists in the Soviet Union talked this way about anyone that did not support Marxism.
Anyone that did not support the party line, was
persona non grata in the STATE, and thus, did not have a right to any economic, social or political existence in society.
I am already hearing stories of whistle blowers exposing corruption in the FBI. If the same could be true of places like the CIA, NSA, etc.? It would be naive to believe that everything that is put out by the government and MSM corporate press is necessarily true, and thus, such an attitude about, what is, "legitimate debate," sounds, very, VERY, eerily authoritarian to me.
Why would any real American want to support such an oppressive attitude toward society? DO you even know the difference between an open society and a closed society?
I assure you, it has nothing to do with George Soros' "open society foundation."
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". . . In fact, he said, the view that some collective social entity—be it, for example, a city, a state, society, a nation, or a race—has needs that are prior and superior to the needs of actual living persons is a central ethical tenet of all totalitarian systems, whether ancient or modern. Nazis, for instance, emphasized the needs of the Aryan race to justify their brutal policies, whereas communists in the Soviet Union spoke of class aims and interests as the motor of history to which the individual must bend. The needs of the race or class superseded the needs of individuals. In contrast, Popper held, members of an open society see the state and other social institutions as human designed, subject to rational scrutiny, and always serving the interests of individuals—and never the other way around. True justice entails equal treatment of individuals rather than Plato’s organistic view, in which justice is identified as a well functioning state.. . . "
If you would deny a platform to your fellow Americans, simply because of their beliefs, then it would seem to me, your allegiance is more to the STATE, than to the interests of those individuals that need representation. THUS? You are like the Nazis, Communists, or, further back, the Spartans, a proponent of closed societies, believing that the individuals must be subservient to the needs of the STATE.
The notion of a contrast between open and closed societies, which was introduced by Henri Bergson and made popular by Karl Popper, is now familiar even to people who have read neither the former’s The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932) nor the latter’s The Open Society and its Enemies...
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