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Should I report my Chinese classmate? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So there's this international student from China in my class and she constantly spreads misinformation about the PRC and its history. She basically bootlicks Western propaganda 24/7. She's also politically active in numerous student organizations and travels back to China frequently, which leads me to believe she and/or her family and friends are up to no good over there as well. Should I report her to the 12339 website of the MSS?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's a paradox because if you suppress other opinions you yourself become intolerant.

So? People should be intolerant of some things. No decent society would tolerate Nazis.

as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre