Banning certain ideologies

[Azorean Lands]

Should certain ideologies be banned?
As you're probably guessing, I mean extremist ideologies who discriminate based on race, faith or personal beliefs.
Should a democratic country give out a complete ban on anti-democratic ideologies? Say, nazism, fascism, islamist extremism, etc.

What about their symbols, should the government ban symbols that could be associated with these particular groups?

I know the original post should contain the opinion of the person who opened the thread, but I still don't have this quite well figured out, while on one hand I believe in freedom of speech, I also believe extremist views shouldn't be given power, being unsure on what I should support, I'd like to hear your arguments for or against this.
What is your opinion on this?

[New Werpland]

Banning them from what? From government? From schools? From being adopted by someone?

[Azorean Lands]

Banning them from what? From government? From schools? From being adopted by someone?

I suppose from government and schools, but I'd like to hear your opinions on how far they should be persecuted.

[Sam Hyde]

smiley faces are extremist. ban those.

[Pugmire]

Of course. W e already do so anyway, at least in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist ... ct_of_1954

The same should be applied to organizations like radical religious fundamentalists, hate groups, etc. Such organizations simply have no place in a democracy when their stated purposes are to undermine democracy.

[Wallenburg]

Last I checked, 1984 wasn't an instruction manual.

[New Grestin]

Look, I'm not gonna say we should ban Scientology...

But we should totally ban Scientology.

[The New Sea Territory]

...is incredibly stupid.

[Bezombia]

Absolutely not.

[The New Sea Territory]

Of course. W e already do so anyway, at least in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist ... ct_of_1954

The same should be applied to organizations like radical religious fundamentalists, hate groups, etc. Such organizations simply have no place in a democracy when their stated purposes are to undermine democracy.

Banning other opinions defeats the purpose of democracy in the first place...

[Saint Kitten]

Let's just ban everything then.

[The Serbian Empire]

I have thought about the idea of banning Islamic Extremism, Scientology, and Maoism in particular, but I see it as wrong to ban ideologies as it's people who make the ideologies bad.

[Azorean Lands]

Absolutely not.

So should a democratically elected nazi party be allowed to take power?

[Laerod]

Of course. W e already do so anyway, at least in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist ... ct_of_1954

The same should be applied to organizations like radical religious fundamentalists, hate groups, etc. Such organizations simply have no place in a democracy when their stated purposes are to undermine democracy.

Banning other opinions defeats the purpose of democracy in the first place...

No, because Weimar Republic.

[MERIZoC]

That's impossible.

[MERIZoC]

Absolutely not.

So should a democratically elected nazi party be allowed to take power?

I don't see how you can ban something if the majority of the populace is in support of it.

[Transoxthraxia]

Nope.

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[Azorean Lands]

So should a democratically elected nazi party be allowed to take power?

I don't see how you can ban something if the majority of the populace is in support of it.

With a police force.

[Laerod]

So should a democratically elected nazi party be allowed to take power?

I don't see how you can ban something if the majority of the populace is in support of it.

Why would the majority of the populace need to support a nazi party for it to be democratically elected?

[Noricum Novum]

I don't see how you can ban something if the majority of the populace is in support of it.

Applying this principle so purely is a sure way towards tyranny by majority. A democracy that does not protect minorities is nothing but mob rule.

[Old Tyrannia]

Distasteful viewpoints should be challenged and defeated in public, not silenced. Besides, where do you draw the line between dangerous, extreme ideologies and merely unpopular ones?

[MERIZoC]

I don't see how you can ban something if the majority of the populace is in support of it.

With a police force.

…….

The point



Your head

[Azorean Lands]

Distasteful viewpoints should be challenged and defeated in public, not silenced. Besides, where do you draw the line between dangerous, extreme ideologies and merely unpopular ones?

By banning those views that wish to end the democratic regime.

[MERIZoC]

I don't see how you can ban something if the majority of the populace is in support of it.

Why would the majority of the populace need to support a nazi party for it to be democratically elected?

Voting populace, I should specify.

[MERIZoC]

Distasteful viewpoints should be challenged and defeated in public, not silenced. Besides, where do you draw the line between dangerous, extreme ideologies and merely unpopular ones?

By banning those views that wish to end the democratic regime.

Ones like the view you're advocating, for example?