You've chosen a weird/bad hill to die on. I love free speech as much as anyone, but white power rallies are like yelling "fire" in a theater
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You managed to invoke two of the most overused, cliched tropes -- "hill to die on" and "fire in a crowded theater" -- in the same tweet.
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Maybe cool your heels for a bit before making common cause with nazis.
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"Making common cause with Nazis" is such a disingenuous and gross way to describe the pro-civil liberty position.
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"would be philosophical suicide to hasten it now by giving a government—a visibly terrible&amoral government—the power to regulate speech"
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The Bill of Rights enshrines as sacrosanct things that define who we are as a nation. We can't allow those with vile beliefs to change us.
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My apologies to you. I'm quite angry about recent events. The "C'ville provisions" brings this into stark relief.
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You got to put in simpler terms so I can understand it
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The article dilutes its substance w/a lot of opinion, but the essence is that even Nazis are protected by the 1st until they break the law.
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The case has been made elsewhere (i.e., Germany) that their politics are so vile that their entire culture has been remade to disavow them.
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What about protecting Nazi parades at the UN as we did in 2008, alone?
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I can understand inflicting our freedom of speech laws here in the US but brandishing them all over the world and not expecting blowback?
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I'm an empiricist, so I'd ask, "did this sign result in violence?" Most acts of negligence are only prosecuted as crimes if they cause harm
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Based on your previous comment, that sign seems to be an explicit call to violence.
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would you freedom for safety? watch this recent C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?430379-2/democracy-chains …
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If such a sign caused violence, yes there should be charges brought against the sign's bearer
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Inciting a riot is enough to make someone guilty, and what about unpaid mafia hitmen or cult murders like the Manson family
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