I actually want to talk about this article a bunch because it is exceptionally important.https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/1002157697188483072?s=19 …
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Why should we treat speech laws any differently? We shouldn't, but we do, because the country is built on a founding myth, and American free speech concepts are that myth writ large.
Furthermore, the idea that free speech is an antidote to tyrrany is laughable. Look around. ICE. Pipelines. Trump. There's a lot of fucking tyrrany out there, how's speech working out stopping it? We can't even get the New York Times to say the word "lie."
The issue is we've focused on free speech as a concept instead of the thing that free speech was supposed to protect. In this sense, the ACLU is doing *precisely* the thing that they have been warning about.
Mask laws weren't written to protect, they were written to punish. They are a sword, not a shield. Not all laws are the same. I'm talking about civil protections, not criminal offenses.
?! Mask laws were written to push back against the kkk being able to anonymously terrorize ppl... How would that be any different from limiting free speech to protect others? How can a law work without having a 'sword' aspect?
And how do shield laws work?
I think that's not entirely true - laws that are billed as protecting marginalized groups by limiting Democratic rights are used against those same marginalized groups (eg black Panthers and gun laws, black anti Trump protestors and hate crimes legislation...)
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