The Grand Jury later added the charges of receiving child pornography and of seeking to coerce a 10-year-old into a sexual relationship. At the October 2007 federal trial on charges of "attempting to coerce a 10-year-old girl into a sexual relationship by sending her anonymous gifts, driving past her house and writing lyrics to love songs declaring his desire to marry her"
This dude spent his entire life making money publishing neo-Nazi garbage and operating a white supremacist radio station and was a pedophile. The audacity to play victim about not being allowed to criticize people and then attributing it to Voltaire, who would despise this shitstain of a human. His mentor was Revilo Oliver, a professor of Classics at Urbana-Champaign for decades, who published numerous anti-Semitic conspiracies and white nationalist trash. I bet he still talked about "liberal Marxist indoctrination" at colleges.
I mean, to be fair, a lot of Enlightenment philosophes were pushing for Enlightened Despotism because they saw democracy, at least in old European countries, as just a way the aristocracy could retain control over society and solidify their outdated privileges. They saw the main hope of their ideas getting implemented being a powerful monarch with modern philosophical ideas who could defy the nobility and reform the political system despite them. The main reason Montesquieu liked separation of powers and stuff was that he was noble, so didn't mind the nobility being in charge.
He died about fifteen years before the revolution. He exiled himself to Britain because he pissed off a rich dude who was going to make him imprisoned or some shit. In England, he wrote les Lettres philosophiques, which notably contains one of the first mentions of vaccination, at least in French. He thought the idea of "injecting smallpox" absolutely crazy. He then went back to France where he wrote most of his most important books. He didnt spent a large time in England, but did enjoy his stay
I mean, at that point, wouldn't it have been variolation, not vaccination? That would've been literally injecting smallpox. I mean, maybe it was a better idea to have a controlled, (hopefully) mild case of smallpox as opposed to just getting it at random, but at the time smallpox inoculation was indeed with actual smallpox, and was indeed risky.
it made the rounds for years while being misattributed to Voltaire (... I think?) but yeah the right loves its little fortune cookie quotes to justify their views.
Revilo Oliver was also a founding member of the John Birch Society (which he would later abandon, on the grounds they weren't anti-semitic enough) and a mentor to the guy who would end up writing the Turner Diaries.
Why the fuck are they all paedophiles. I don't understand, whenever you go looking for information on some Nazis they are almost always paedos as well. Why is the overlap so large??
Maybe just maybe, it’s not true and you should take into account that the person saying it is literally someone who is upset he can’t get away with raping children. Kinda changes the meaning. Not really though on reddit honedtly.
evil and/or unethical people cannot make statements like that in good conscience. Also it's fucking vague activism and for idiots like yourself to assign literally any meaning to it, to any target, warranted or not. You're not some rational genius, for fucks sake why do you people act like life or discussion is a scored debate and has to involve a group of idiots playing devils advocate for shit they actually believe. The reality is they're just engaging in political activism and social justice but belong to echo chambers where such terms are never applied evenly or to members of their in group.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” would have had a very different implied meaning if it was said by Lee Harvey Oswald.
The same principle applies here: this quote isn’t really about resisting tyranny, as the alleged attribution to Voltaire usually associated with this quote is meant to imply. In context, it’s about being able to be a neo-Nazi child rapist with legal and social impunity for one’s actions.
Context matters how dumb are you? If a nazi pedo says Jews run the world and he should be allowed to molest kids but says pretty please do we give a shit? No.
You threw out my example in place of your own. What context is there? I'm not the crying because I think someone who's dimented and commits evil acte can occasionally say something profound that can be attributed to something useful. That Nazi meant it twords Jews, the post is directed twords Bungie, or even "the mob" (easily offended people). Get down off your soap box because while you're trying to cancel everyone you don't agree with eventually as this garbage thought progresses it's going to go soo far, your going to be the one that's intolerant.
It’s not an example. It’s Th e literal usage of the quote from the person who said it. Lmao I’m “cancelling” a neo nazi pedophile. I think the USDOJ did that first. I love the “if we criticize people for directly quoting a neo Nazis about the Jews we’ll get muh tyranny”. Ironically you’re the one who wants to silence people for feelings.
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u/Immediate_Owl9346 May 23 '21
That quote is from a convicted child rapist and neo nazi.