• frostbiker@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Burning a symbol to upset people is a shitty thing to do, but it should not be illegal.

    Assaulting people, whether they burned a symbol you like or not, is a shitty thing to do that should remain illegal.

    And yes, some people in my country have burned symbols that represent people like me recently. Nobody from my community assaulted the people who did it in response. Just the way it should be.

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      1 year ago

      The burning of qurans is clearly meant to incite hate and violence though, and frankly people shouldn’t be burning anything in public anyways.

      They’re still perfectly free to invite anyone to their backyard book burnings, don’t act like this is some authoritarian limit on freedom, this is an active intervention to PRESERVE freedom from the nazis who want to take it from us.

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        1 year ago

        I do not approve of burning holy books, but I think it should be legal.

        What people shouldn’t do and what should be banned are different things. I don’t want to live in a place where what is not mandatory is banned. There has to be some room for freedom of expression, even for people expressing ideas we dislike.

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          I do not approve of burning books, full stop. I couldn’t care less whose imaginary friend the book is or isn’t about.

          But I completely agree that the government should categorically not be legislating which books you can and cannot burn. Burning a book is a form of free speech. It’s often offensive to many people, but it’s still important - if for no other reason than it lets the people doing the burning show their true colors.